Considering how much I hate being in touch with emotions and have a hard time expressing them, i find it rather hilarious that I am most inspired by emo music as a stimulant to writing. I don't know half of the songs that play when I write, I just know that Dashboard Confessional plays prominently in my playlist (well, it kind of has to, since that's the station to which I set my Pandora Internet radio).
On another note, Lahiri continues to astound me with her command of prose. Her writing is both inspiring and intimidating. It's almost like she is writing the story of my life, but at the same time, after reading some of her stories, I am overwhelmed with the feeling that anything that I can contribute to the writing world would be like trying to build a cathedral with popsicle sticks, in the shadow of Notre Dame (or whichever architecture fills you with awe).
It definitely makes it harder to focus on my writing, being distracted with maor feelings of inferiority. But, I keep telling myself that my concern is only about my writing, my world, and not how it will compare to other people's.
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