Something Brilliant

When you are writing, sometimes you wish you had the inspiration to write something brilliant, and something brilliant is the last thing that comes to your mind.

Your mind starts to fill up with all sorts of things that you wish it doesn’t get filled up with… Insect sounds, that  cousin who has an annoying landlord, the beggar with no legs you saw in the morning and what you thought about him, the little girl with the missing ear and that annoying blog post about something brilliant.

What most writers don’t know is that this is just the kind of inspiration that you need to write something brilliant. That thing of brilliance may come to you in a flash, or it may come to you slowly, like that snail who just won’t give up climbing your garden wall, no matter how many times you tap it and make it fall to the ground. Sometimes I wonder what snails are looking for, but that’s a blog for a rainy day, and today, it’s bright sunlight all the way in these parts.

Back to brilliance, I guess… Yes. Inspiration… Right…

Inspiration is a weird thing… It’s not scientific… It can’t be replicated in controlled environments. One can’t look at or listen to the works of the masters and get the same kind of inspiration that another gets. Listen to Mozart’s 40th Symphony, look at the Mona Lisa… Go ahead.. Listen, look… Now let someone else listen and look.

Inspired? Some of my readers might say yes, and some might say no. I, for one, can be inspired more by Mozart than by the Mona Lisa, but the big difference is this… Whatever level of inspiration you get from it, you have been inspired in a way that is completely different from the ways others have been inspired.

So if you get a weird idea about something and think it stupid, chances are that you may be right to think it stupid, but always be mindful of the fact that there is the distinct possibility that it is not.