{"id":6068,"date":"2020-12-13T14:14:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T03:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6068"},"modified":"2021-07-11T06:40:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T20:40:51","slug":"the-source-of-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6068","title":{"rendered":"The source of inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>For me, inspiration comes from a bunch of places: desperation, deadlines\u2026 A lot of times ideas will turn up when you\u2019re doing something else. And, most of all, ideas come from confluence \u2014 they come from two things flowing together. They come, essentially, from daydreaming. . . . And I suspect that\u2019s something every human being does. Writers tend to train themselves to notice when they\u2019ve had an idea \u2014 it\u2019s not that they have any more ideas or get inspired more than anything else; we just notice when it happens a little bit more.<\/p><cite>Neil Gaiman, writer, in an interview with Clem Bastow.  Cited in: Maria Popova, &#8220;How Creativity Works: Neil Gaiman on Where Ideas Come From&#8221;, <em>Brain Pickings<\/em>, <a aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2014\/02\/18\/neil-gaiman-creativity\/ (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2014\/02\/18\/neil-gaiman-creativity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2014\/02\/18\/neil-gaiman-creativity\/<\/a>, accessed 13 December 2020.  <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me, inspiration comes from a bunch of places: desperation, deadlines\u2026 A lot of times ideas will turn up when you\u2019re doing something else. And, most of all, ideas come from confluence \u2014 they come from two things flowing together. They come, essentially, from daydreaming. . . . And I suspect that\u2019s something every human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[814,1541],"class_list":["post-6068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-creative-process","tag-inspiration","tag-neil-gaiman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6069,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions\/6069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}