Kathy Rowe: Photographer (still) and screenwriter in McKee, Kentucky.

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Allo Kathy! I am a literary and acting agent. How can I help you?

I don't think it's "semantics" at all. What is for 'you' may not be what or how it is for others. If you truly understand inspiration, it's like a thought. How many thoughts do you have a day, a minute? Does this take time away from your daily functioning (stop you from eating, talking or working)? I mean really? That's all inspiration is...hence it's root "IN SPIRIT". Thoughts are from the mind, inspiration is from the spirit. And on that note, I don't want to clutter my spirit or my thoughts, so have a blessed day.

Sorry, Guys and Girls, but Thomas Alva Edison is first reported as saying "GENIUS is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration" sometime around 1902, in the September 1932 edition of Harper's Monthly Magazine. And this is something I totally agree with. However, writing, real writing as opposed to the ‘written on demand’ books that appear on our bookstalls requires for more inspiration than perspiration. Most writers have far more thoughts that inspire characters and situations than they ever use. That’s why they have a notebook in which they jot things down. A phrase; the way a man counts his money or a girl twists her hair around her fingers; something seen on the news. It is the equivalent to an artist’s sketches or a composer’s jottings and many of these notes will simply wither on the vine. However perspiration does have a quite specific meaning and, even though we have now (I hope) cleared up the exact quotation, many people will still come out with the old: writing is ………And I still maintain, as is my right, that it is 50/50 and if you are spending 99% of your time sweating it then you are (one is) probably in the wrong job. However, it’s your life, your time you spend it the way you see fit.

I commented earlier about a brainstorming session that I conducted at my branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) and suggested that if the Admin of our website posted it, that I would provide the link. This is the link, for anyone who is interested in having a look. Just click on the heading on the webpage (BRAINSTORMED LIST OF GAINING INSPIRATION): http://northarmcove.nsw.au/writing

Haha! Howdy back!

David - I agree with your sentiment here and you are absolutely correct. Readers are looking for any excuse to throw a script back into the pile as they can be deluged with weekend reads 52X a year. Typos, bad spelling and improper format is a killer. In addition - a high page count - as there are those who like to look at the last page first - having read nothing that comes earlier - and decide - based purely on the number in the corner - that it's "too long". My only suggested edit to your post would be to say "Proofread your Material!" - calling it "Crap" denigrates all who write and bundles all of the writing into a class - which presupposes that whether well proofed or not - the material is garbage - which I am sure - was not your intention.

Dan - that's the kind of thinking that has hundreds of novice writers thinking they can write. When the real secret is that your "crap" needs to be BETTER than the "crap" Hollywood produces.

Oh, Sweet Jesus! You guys are getting waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too crazy over the word "Crap." Get over it, folks. I was simply venting. Relax, for Christ's sake.