William Stafford’s Inspiration William Stafford wrote, “It has one justification: it occurs to me. No one else can guide me. I must follow my own weak, wandering, diffident impulses”. Through Stafford’s essay I discovered that creative writing is all about my own meandering thoughts and ideas and that what occurs to me is what matters most. In high school I became programmed to think like the teacher. When I would write an essay I would compose it with what the teacher wanted to read, not my ideas. I was convinced that I would get a pretty good grade by doing this. And most the time my theory did not fail me. Somewhere along the lines I lost the original creativity that goes into writing. When I read Stafford’s essay on the writing process it was like he was speaking directly to me. Stafford uses a metaphor for fishing to explain the beginning of the writing ....

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