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Finding Inspiration in Surprising Places

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Brendan Spiegel
Sep 14, 2025
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Happy Sunday, writers! Our first-ever Mindfulness + Meditation Mini-Retreat for Writers is today at 12pm ET and there’s still time to RSVP if you’d like to join!

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Ted Hope
over at the
Hope For Film
Substack challenged me to join the #FilmStack Inspiration Challenge, where every day a different Substacker shares what inspires them. It’s been so, well…inspiring to hear from different creators each day about all the various films, stories, and experiences that help them get the creative spark going. Here are a couple things from our community and beyond that have inspired me recently.

1. Friends in Strange Places

Over on the Narratively Academy chat this week, I Ioved seeing this tidbit from

Amy Barnes
:

I have found help writing from an unlikely place. My college kid introduced me to the Finch app. I joined to keep a connection with her when she's hundreds of miles away. Another writer friend found me there and added a daily goal of writing 250 words (for both of us) - I am usually awful at writing every day as a forced go…

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