What’s inspired you this week? Was there anything that gave you an ah-hah moment? That click of insight?Â
Here’s a few things that intrigued me this week and I wanted to share them with you.
The Lost Generation
I was reading a newsletter from the Central Coast Writers Club that I belong to and in there was an article on Ezra Pound that referred to the Lost Generation. I read that the term described the generation that came of age during WWI. But it was the way the term came into use that I found inspiring and kind of funny too. Here’s the story excerpted from Gertrude Stein The Exile & The Lost Generation:
This term was invented by Gertrude Stein. One summer in Belley, Stein’s garage owner said to a young mechanic repairing Stein’s Ford “You are all a generation Perdue”. When she told it to her friend Ernest Hemingway, she decided to employ the expression in order to qualify the group who rejected American post World War I values. That’s how Hemingway became the most emblematic figure of the current and he also popularized it. Then, a lot of authors joined the movement, like Scott Fitzgerald – who was later considered as the leader of the Lost Generation – T.S. Eliot, Waldo Pierce, Alan Seeger, Erich Maria Remarque, Ezra Pound, John Dos Passos, E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, Hart Crane, John Steinbeck, Sherwood Anderson, Sylvia Beach, etc… -read more here.
Learning from the greats
I read 7 Writing Habits of Amazing Writers by Leo Babauta and wanted to share it with you. Click here to read his article.
I like the idea of writing first thing in the morning, in that sort of sleepy dream state. When do you like to write/read?