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emulation. In the short haul it will allow you to Perhaps the most important point about
study and use the skills of the person you’re finding people who inspire us is that they
inspired by. Over the long haul, as your skills didn’t exist in a vacuum. No one I know has ever
as a public speaker improve and you discover found inspiration staring into nothingness.
the subject matter and audience you wish Rather, it was the act of experiencing life and
to connect to, your own voice will begin to taking the chance to get to know another
flourish and become more distinct. person or subject matter that allowed that
person to grow into who they are today.
In my own case as a writer, I wanted to emulate Inspiration never ends with one person or
Ursula K. Le Guin’s prose as it spoke to me in concept; it continues throughout our lives
a way that no other writing had before. As I and affects us in a myriad number of ways.
matured and started reading other authors, I Knowing who inspires us can be a great first
could see the value in each person’s written step in recognizing what motivates us to be
style and learn from it. I’m a long way from better than we were yesterday.
being a professional science fiction author,
but I know how important it is to have clear Using that inspiration allows us to go further
and concise language both in my writing and into the unknown and take that next step,
in public speaking thanks to those earlier however inconsequential that step might
lessons from authors I admire. seem at the time, into discovering how far our
journeys can take us.
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