It is a strange thing to be inspired. It happens like opportunity . . . not always at the most convienient time or place. For instance, I sometimes become inspired as I'm laying in bed trying my hardest to fall asleep. I have been woken up at five in the morning and couldn't fall back to sleep because of inspiration. Random ideas in the shower, while driving, in class, whenever I don't have paper handy. Inspiration occurs whenever the hell it wants to. It certainly keeps you on your toes. And who knows what inspires us? I'm not sure anyone does. It seems to me that you become inspired because you've stopped thinking about being inspired. Its like when you are trying really hard to remember something. You know that you know it, but no matter how hard you try you can't remember. You then move on in the conversation and eventually you will (sometimes comically) blurt out the answer and everyone will look at you funny because it makes no sense in the current conversation. It's like that kind of moment. The 'ah-ha' moment if you will.
As a writer I try to keep paper and a pen handy, and if not paper all the time, at least a pen. (Skin in times of need is just as good as paper, especially the back of one's hand).
I'm a pretty tidy and organized person. I keep my DVD's in alphabetical order and my books on the shelf are in alphabetical order (or as much as they can be since they're stacked and crammed onto the shelves.) I've pretty much got a place for everything and I put things in the same places everytime so that I won't lose them (a creature of habit to be sure). The only exception really to this is my desk. No matter how hard I try it usually is stacked with papers and books, pens and pencils hide everywhere. I've come to accept it and it just seems to be me. If I clean it off and organize everything it just looks strange and I let it go back to how it was in no time at all. I think desks are supposed to be messy. At least mine is supposed to be messy.
Juxtaposition (<-- such a good word)
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