Writing anything from a sense of purpose needs a key ingredient – inspiration. Inspirational writing encourages readers, helps them see the world and themselves in a more positive light and propels the desired action.
How to tap into it?
Inspirational writing begins with self-motivation.
Where does self-motivation come from?
Some sort of calling …
What does your calling do?
Express itself, accessing your unique experience and emotions to give people the freedom to feel that and set themselves free.
Passion for a topic, a subject, or a study that effortlessly transmits inspiration from the writer to the reader.
Why it has to be you that writes it?
Somewhere, someone once said, “It’s your message, and the world needs to hear it from you”.
Leverage the art of inspiration
When writers write from their passion, time flies, and it doesn’t feel like a duty because passion sets them on fire while setting themselves and everyone free.
- The sparks of emotions through personal encounters on the subject provide readers with unique perspectives and concepts from others being in their shoes. Emotions are sincere, and this common thread creates authenticity.
- Being selective and intentional about the outlook the reader is taking. It’s your message – will the reader take something positive with them and the intention of making a difference positively?
How to write this?
Write compelling content – Overcoming adversity, achieving goals, transformations, and the moments of failure leading to success.
1. Identify what inspires you
Inspiration comes from many sources, such as books, movies, music, nature, and activities and more. Ever asked yourself why most of the music you listen to is about love? Love is a universal language. Love for a person creates connection, it connects to listeners, resonates with and speaks to them, and inspires.
The power of inspiration
Lasting inspiration has the right ingredients composed together that make you want to go back to listen to that song, read that book, go to the concert of your favourite band, watch a particular movie, dance to that song, create a choreography for it, and to perform it over and over again, just a small example.
2. Know your audience
Learn, study and find the challenges and common thread that will bind your message to your audience.
3. Set clear goals
The right ingredients are just enough. What would be the right words to choose, and how do you want to achieve your goal?
Do you need art, music, images, or videos… get my drift?
It’s the same concept when a person wants to change things up in their life? What inspiration would they need? A trip, meeting people, exercising, or getting out more.
4. Speak your audience’s language
Use relatable language that the audience can digest in small amounts. Remember that by elevating your audience, less is more, otherwise, they may lose the plot. Making it over inspirational can be received with confusion or overwhelm.
5. Craft a compelling message
Identify the central message or the core theme. Write from the heart and share genuine experiences and beliefs. Authenticity in writing creates a human connection. Readers are most likely to connect with honesty and what feels real.
6. Build trust
When the audience keeps coming back and finds themselves met with consistency in authenticity, they are more likely to follow you because your message is working for whatever they seek to change in their lives. This reinforces their reliability and sincerity in you.
7. Use storytelling
Provide experiences as examples and highlight how others can defeat challenges. Remind your audiences to accept that some things are part of life and there are ways to navigate and come out on the other side successfully. By being vulnerable, the audience can learn to work with what they have and where they are in their lives as a starting point. Stay true to yourself, and throughout your message, light the way for your audience and their challenges.
Use this to paint the picture through descriptive language that they could visualise. Using quotes, metaphors, and analogies makes concepts tangible and relatable. Tap into emotions such as hope, courage, perseverance, etc.
8. Remain true to your purpose
By remaining true to your values and beliefs, the authenticity of your message will shine.
9. Use positive and uplifting words and language
Use language that will uplift your audience so they are inspired to take positive action to the challenges they are facing. Stay away from words that could discourage them.
10. Leave a lasting impression
What would leave a long-term impact on you, something thought-provoking? To have remembered and keep remembering what you have written hours or even days after your message has been received. Even better, what would it take to have someone remember what you have said to them for a lifetime, even if that was a word or one sentence they could remember?
Leave a lasting impression on the conclusion.
Looking forward to our next discussion, in the meantime take a look at my entertaining and educational video on my YouTube Channel about Creative Writing: Leveraging the Art of Inspiration.
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Yours sincerely,
T. Dench Patel
