Inspiration -- The Writer's 'Aha' Moment
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It's my dad's fault I've spent more money on notebooks than I've earned from
words written in them. From the age I could hold a crayon -- and comprehend
I shouldn't scribble on walls -- stationery was in plentiful supply. During
my formative years, a paper-mill firm employed my father.
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He brought home reams of product -- quality control rejects. I eyed them
with enthusiasm, itching to scrawl my hieroglyphics. As my mastery of the
three R's improved, I was the only 7-year-old on the block with
leather-bound notebooks (albeit defective). I admired my paper hoard,
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believing it meant only one thing: I was destined to be a writer. But when a
new notepad appeared, I would start a new story regardless of whether I had
finished the last -- I liked my tablets dog-ear free.
A quarter-century later, the paper-mill converted to a boutique mall and my
dad fond of saying, "You live beyond your means," I still dreamed of being a
famous writer. My vocabulary had grown age-appropriately (and my cursive).
My self-discipline and output, however, remained that of a child. Perhaps
less -- I was a prolific 7-year-old, after all.
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Still, the dream stuck. A calfskin-bound journal with linen-finished pages
shrieked, "Buy me," begging to be filled with my prose. I would reverently
begin a piece, with the help of a carefully selected pen. But when
coffee-cup rings stained the book and it lost its leather smell; my writing
was as stale and uninteresting.
A new masterpiece began when the next journal beckoned. I would tell myself
this was "it": the story that would be published (I could justify any
expense for an inspiration fix).
It was last spring I had the "Aha" moment. It came in Wal-Mart. Shopping
with my 7-year-old daughter -- a blossoming writer -- she insisted I buy her
a brightly covered journal.
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