Inspiration Won't Finish It
Segun Iwasanmi@iwasanmisegun212159
15 days ago
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There was a period I used to think creativity alone could carry anything. Ah. My head used to be a busy market. Sometimes I would imagine a matchstick suddenly opening eyes and becoming angry because people keep striking its head every day. Sometimes I would imagine myself with superpowers chasing wicked political leaders all over town, and the funny part was that once they corner me, I would divide into many versions of myself just to confuse everybody. I still laugh when I remember some of the things that used to happen inside my own head. Free entertainment, completely self-funded.😀
But inspiration has never really had a problem visiting people. That is not the issue. The issue starts when inspiration drops the idea, waves goodbye and disappears like one uncle that only shows up during Christmas (I didn't mention name, did I? 😀), Because having an idea and actually building a story from it are two completely different things, and many people find that out the hard way somewhere around chapter three.
A block of cement can become a house, but if you leave it on the roadside with sand and iron rods beside it, people will only say "something wants to happen here." They will not say a house exists. Potential is exciting but structure is what people finally live inside. I have seen this play out so many times. Someone explains their story idea and your eyes genuinely widen because the thing has real weight to it. Then they start writing and somewhere around page ten, the excitement starts breathing like somebody climbing Idanre hill in the afternoon sun, slowing down, looking for somewhere to rest, hoping the destination will somehow come to meet them.
That is why books are rarely finished by inspiration alone. They survive discipline, clarity, and sometimes another pair of eyes that can see the road ahead when the writer is too close to the work to see anything clearly.
Some rough ideas already carry the weight of bold stories inside them. They are just standing somewhere at the roadside waiting for somebody to look twice and know what to do with what they see.
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