Today I'm reminding you to stay curious, enthusiastic, and open because you never know when inspiration will strike. Sometimes the simplest things spark an idea.
This past weekend at a family brunch, we got on the subject of everyone's favorite flavor of cobbler, which led to my brother introducing us to the song Peaches by the 90s band The Presidents of the United States of America.
It's an entire song about how wonderful peaches are and how the singer dreams of moving to the country to eat as many peaches as he can.
When you get these lightning strikes of inspiration, don't discount them if they seem strange. Maybe you’ll write a monologue about your love of peaches and it turns into the first scene of your screenplay. Or you parlay your model train obsession into a twisty murder mystery. Or you make a video rant about how frustrated you are with your lawn mower that goes viral and gets you a job on a sitcom.
After all, I once wrote a newsletter about how much I loved my toast tongs. Creativity comes in the strangest ways from the most unlikely of places. Be sure to listen to your muse because you never know where she's going to lead you.
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You can use this same hack on typed documents, if you want to create a digital Word doc. I'm using it to preserve my dad's pre-computer speeches.
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