A small piece on "inspiration" from my blog on an - alas - by now expired website that I used to love. As far as I remember I wrote this 6-7 years ago:
What inspired me to write about a zebra-lion love affair, a fugitive tree and aliens with human relatives? To me that is a superfluous question as feeling inspired by a lot of things comes natural with me. I'm in the good position of getting ideas just by sitting down by my computer. Something I think my ideas come from not having to write to make a living. I suppose that would be the death of my "writing career" because it's actually more like a hobby than a job.
No matter what, to be a writer, a designer or an artist as well as a bread winner must be awful, and I'm glad I'm not. I think that's why my inspiration - at least up till now - flows and forms new patterns that I haven't sought to find as they seem to come by themselves. However, I know that many people have sought for inspiration, but only to find that, alas, it can't be neither bought, stolen or forced into coming.
By the way, did you know this? = "Inspiration has an unusual history in that its figurative sense appears to predate its literal one. It comes from the Latin inspiratus (the past participle of inspirare, “to breathe into, inspire”) and in English has had the meaning “the drawing of air into the lungs” since the middle of the 16th century. This breathing sense is still in common use among doctors, as is expiration (“the act or process of releasing air from the lungs”). However, before inspiration was used to refer to breath it had a distinctly theological meaning in English, referring to a divine influence upon a person, from a divine entity; this sense dates back to the early 14th century. The sense of inspiration often found today (“someone or something that inspires”) is considerably newer than either of these two senses, dating from the 19th century."
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