Yeah, thats a lot of writing–Nearly 20,000 minutes. A shade over a third of the way to Gladwell’s 10,000 hour rule. Not all of it has been effective. Often in writing I have to wade through a swath a detritus to find something worth keeping. A great deal of that detritus is spawned by a lack of inspiration. I debate the reasons behind the inspiration void often, but I keep circling back to the same fact: Arizona doesn’t provide as much as New York does in terms of the inspiration I recognize and can easily ingest.
I’m not saying Arizona is devoid of inspiration. For those who speak the language of sand and heat and sacrament, Arizona runs deep with creativity. I have tried time and again to learn that language and can speak to this land time to time. Though the ocean of ideas has slowed, the flow is not completely stopped. I can still find inspiration and still write here in this space, but it is often harder.