To quote the D, "you can't manufacture insperado." which sucks, as every writer knows, you can't walk out side in a grassy park area, barefoot, and expect to be blind sided by inspiration. Much like the answer to what you'll do with the rest of your life, or what would make you happy in life it just has to hit you. There are ways to try and encourage said muses, but it is often futile. I'm not offering a trick, a tip, a secret, or even a lead to finding inspiration, I'm simply saying to not strangle it. Frequently I'll read the work of other people who want to write like their favorite author so badly that they attempt to emulate them. They will even try and write about something that offers no inspiration... I've been down this road far too many times. This is where the problem lies, you cannot force your self to create, if you do then you produce hack quality work, because you are one. "let me mill out this paper before class." "this is so boring, why am I doing this?" I'm not saying to quit school, or stop writing papers. Just set the artist free, if you have to write a paper, but you want to be funny, be funny. Schools are designed to rob us of out creativity, so throw it back in their faces. Viva la revolution!

Exile

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