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Inspiration for Real-Life Writing

Prompt: Inspiration
Where does your inspiration for writing about real life come from: Your home, family, friends, news media and maybe popular stories and crimes or what?

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Inspiration for writing about real life? Frankly speaking, it may come from just about anywhere for most good writers.

In my case, for this blog, it mainly comes from what a prompt suggests, since recently, I've only been posting online what I write in my blog, which doesn't mean that it is the only thing I write. I have grown more fond of writing in notebooks with a pen, after finding out that scammers go into writers' stuff, especially personal blogs online, to do their illegal things. I'm, therefore, very careful not to give away too much information about myself in my blog.

Coming back to where I get my inspiration, it usually has to do with personal experiences especially unexpected encounters, memory and nostalgia, and a desire to understand a certain point or area, since I add a little bit of research in what I write.

My subjects could be about social and cultural issues, historical and present events and/or literary works, my own observations of how people and other things in life are, and to a degree, some personal experiences. Then, mostly, I have to feel something about the subject. This is because for us human beings, emotions are powerful motivators.