Spontaneous Inspiration

eric mccarty
2 min readApr 30, 2024
Spontaneous Inspiration — Writing Life — Headless Now — Lyrical Prose

Spontaneous inspiration:

if there’s a struggle, it’s always for the first words, the opening phrase that sets the tone for everything that follows. The reason it might seem more difficult is that I often approach the page without a clear idea of what’s to be written, relying on spontaneous inspiration to guide me. And it always does, without fail, but sometimes there’s still those first few moments of doubt, even after…

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eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student