Writing is hard: the rejection part, the critique part, and just the sitting down to do it part (especially when you have experienced a lot of the first two)

Since completing my latest novel manuscript I have been finding it especially difficult to get back at it.

Which brings me to this: a daily challenge to list one thing that inspires me to write–tricks, people, good books–basically whatever gives me the creative energy to get back in that chair and start tapping the tiles.  My goal is to find 100 such things and list them all here–and hopefully complete another manuscript in the process!

Here goes…