Toni's Inspiration (continued)
By Toni Blake
©2005 Toni Blake. All Rights Reserved.
It was during this same period that I announced to my mother one day over breakfast that I was going to be a writer when I grew up. I was discovering that I wanted to tell those stories in my head, and that I wanted someone to hear them. Again, it was my way of wanting to make a connection, of reaching out and hopefully finding people who could relate to what I had to say.
And though I went through ups and downs after that, periods where I wrote non-stop, periods where I stopped writing altogether – in the end, I always came back to the writing. There was so much in me that needed to come out, always. Sometimes it was just in a journal, for no other purpose than spilling it on the page, and other times it was meant to be read by others, an effort to make someone think, or feel something, an effort to entertain.
By and large, not much has changed for me. Each time I sit down to write, the purpose is virtually the same: I’m spilling my stories on paper because I need to get them out of my head and because I want to make that wonderful connection with other people.
And no matter what happens in my career, nothing is as exciting to me as when someone I don’t know comes up to me and tells me they loved my book, that it made them laugh or cry, feel happy or sad, that they connected in some way with the story I had to tell.
And that, very simply, is what inspires me to write.
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