{"id":3811,"date":"2013-06-07T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allandouglas.com\/blog\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:40","slug":"inspired-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/inspired-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspired Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"inspiration,Last Sunday morning I awoke early.\u00a0 No, that\u2019s not accurate; I was wrenched from slumber, early in the morning by a pair of conditions.\u00a0 The second most attention getting condition was a burning sensation in my left shoulder.\u00a0 Much later I would figure out that this was the spot where the shoulder strap of our brush cutter had pressed for several hours the day before.\u00a0 As is often the case, it didn\u2019t bother me at all the day of, but the day after is another story.\u00a0 So I got up and took a BC Powder to deal with that.<\/p>\n

The other, even more compelling condition was a string of words running through my mind as though printed on a ticker tape.\u00a0 These words streamed through my mind and I was compelled to record them.<\/p>\n

This is not a new experience for me; it happens often.\u00a0 And I know from experience that if I try to put it off; to set them down on paper later, when it\u2019s more convenient, I\u2019ll lose them and never be able to recall them again.\u00a0 Oh, I\u2019ll remember the general gist of them, but not the exact composition.\u00a0 Not the way they fit together and flowed with cohesive thought. No; to capture that I needed to obey their siren song now.<\/p>\n

And so I ambled out to the dining room, started up the lap top and transferred the ticker tape words from my cerebrum to the hard drive.<\/p>\n

The topic of these compulsion driven writing sessions can run the full spectrum of creative writing, but the most compelling of them tend to be religious or inspirational in nature.\u00a0 I like to think that it is God whispering in my ear while I sleep, then elbowing me to get up and do something with the words.\u00a0 This was one such.\u00a0 I called it Looking At The Cross<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Maybe it will serve someone in need of hearing what it has to say.\u00a0 That part is up to God.<\/p>\n

I sometimes wonder if this is what it was like for the people who penned the letters and documents that eventually became our Bible.\u00a0 Not, let me hasten to add, that I equate myself with any of them.\u00a0 Far from it!\u00a0 It\u2019s just that it\u2019s a little unnerving to be directed to write material that I have not constructed.<\/p>\n

Most articles that I write I have to research extensively, pulling together enough interrelated facts to piece together an article that is both informative and entertaining.\u00a0 Some of these \u201cinspired\u201d articles will grow from something I studied or heard, but the completed piece generally encompasses material that I was not aware of prior to writing it.\u00a0 As a result, I research it after I write it to be sure I\u2019m not spewing falsehood.\u00a0 Sometimes these are controversial enough that I am not comfortable with publishing at all for quite a while.<\/p>\n

Divine inspiration?\u00a0 Leaps in logic?\u00a0 Sheer dumb luck?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 But as long as I keep getting dragged from my bed in the wee hours of the morning with a head full of words, I\u2019ll keep writing them down, just in case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Sunday morning I awoke early.  No, that’s not accurate; I was wrenched from slumber, early in the morning by a pair of conditions.  The second most attention getting condition was a burning sensation in my left shoulder.  Much later I would figure out that this was the spot where the shoulder strap of our … Continue reading “Inspired Writing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-3811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-muse","tag-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21172,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions\/21172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}