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"postaday", Aran Islands, Atlantic, Book, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, Inis Mor, Ireland, Muse, Ted Talk, Weekly Photo Challenge, Writing
It’s appropriate that Muse should be the weekly photo challenge this week because lately I’ve been thinking a lot about muses and what inspires me to write and how I can focus more on my writing. I’m so haphazard with it and I want to hone it until it becomes my craft, not a hobby or a “just when I’m inspired” thing.
I dream about spending time in a cottage on the Aran Islands, off the coast of Ireland, just writing, undisturbed by the day to day things that I am distracted by now. This dream was brought about by spending just one day and one night on Inis Mor, the largest of the Aran Islands. I can’t tell you what it was about the place that has inspired such a yearning to immerse myself in it but inspire it has. When I looked out across the water, I immediately saw myself in the coziness of a cottage overlooking the ocean, snug and warm from the cold Atlantic breeze, in front of my computer writing a book.
Was it a muse that put that image in my head? I think maybe it was. I know that I’d never imagined that scene before I walked along the old, narrow, stone fence lined lanes. Before I visited this beautiful place I had never imagined myself isolated from friends and family, immersed in nature and my writing. I bless the muse who gave me the idea. I don’t know when or how it will happen but happen it will.
I was watching an interesting Ted Talk the other day by Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray, Love. She spoke about muses and that inner genius of creativity. As a creative, I found it really interesting and put her theory to the test and spoke to my muse, asking for the help I needed to get over a case of writer’s block that I was experiencing while trying to write a set piece. It’s definitely worth a watch.
So, here’s a gallery of Inis Mor where my muse feels I should write.
Happy musing.. Livvy xx
I love the Aran Islands. Such a wonderful, simple place. We stayed a couple of nights on Inis Mor in 2011, and visited via day trips before that.
I desperately want to go back again. I only got to Inis Mor, so need to see the other islands now 🙂
Great you had a chance to visit!
Yes.. I’m so lucky to have got there.. even just for the one day and night. Next time will be longer. 🙂
That’s wonderful! 🙂
That was a really inspiring TED talk and those are beautiful pictures! Thanks for sharing them. I hope that you find yourself in that cottage by the sea someday, just writing, undisturbed by the day to day! I’m still trying to figure out what my ‘dream’ is/will be… but ‘undisturbed by the day to to day’ stuff would definitely be part of it! 😛
When I get there, you should come over for a few weeks and write as well.. definitely undisturbed by the day to day stuff 🙂
Don’t think I WOULDN’T! 😉
sounds like a plan to me 😀
Okay! Now where is that money tree…
What a beautiful spot!
janet
Janet it is beautiful. So untouched by modern living. It’s not primitive, they have all the amenities there but it FEELS like a time when life was simpler. 🙂
I thought these photos look familiar until you mentioned Aran Island. Gosh, as far as I can remember, I had beautiful memories at Aran. Thank you for sharing your muse.
It’s such a lovely place. and I don’t imagine it’s changed a great deal over the last few years.. So untouched and peaceful 🙂
VERY inspiring photos!
Thank you. It’s why I’d love to spend more time there 🙂
I can see why…… Now I want to, too….
Hopefully you’ll get there.. It’s so worth a visit
That place is gorgeous and your photographs are terrific!
Thanks Brett. It truly is a magnificent place. 🙂
Great set of images….Ireland is so beautiful. Thatchirch with no roof looks so cool and the curving road. Good eye.
All of Ireland is beautiful but the Aran Islands is a photographers dream. It’s raw and primitive in a way and I don’t mean that as an insult.. I loved everything about it. I need to go back to get more photos lol