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100 Places to Find Writing Inspiration

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1. Fortune cookies2. Joanna Wiebe's emails from Copyhackers.com (you can sign up here)3. US Weekly magazine covers4. Buzzfeed headlines5. GoodReads quotes section6. Hiten Shah's Twitter feed7. Demian Farnworth's article archives8. The Help Scout blog9. The way this artist responds to her fans10. This Seattle, Washington, gas station's Twitter.11. IRL billboards12. Book title subheads13. Highly rated Amazon reviews14. Twitter bios15. Snapchat captions16. Auto dealership mailers17. Top comments on Disqus threads (sort: Best)18. Reddit headlines19. Stephen King's On Writing20. Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird21. This collection of 404 error pages22. Shakespeare sonnets23. Haikus24. Dr. Seuss's If I Ran a Zoo25. Popular Kindle highlights of the books you're reading26. Neil Patel's article structure27. Gary Vaynerchuk's guides (start with this one on Snapchat)28. Gary Vaynerchuk's social updates29. Randall Munroe's Thing Explainer (written using only the most common 1,000 English words)30. The way Under Consideration engages its community31. Anum Hussain slide decks

32. Rand Fishkin slide decks33. Headlines of the most popular articles on

Medium

today34. 

Brian Dean landing pages

35. 

This

Campaign Monitor landing page36. 

This

list of Hot Jar survey questions37. Bryan Harris landing pages38. 

Oblique strategies

39. Apples to Apples

40. Balderdash41. Crossword puzzles42. Word Jumble43. Psalms and Proverbs

44. Vitamin Water labels

45. Stories about the lives of writers (

this

book is a good start)

46. Old David Ogilvy ads

47. Mad Men (as thematic inspiration)48. 30 Rock (as one-liner inspiration)49. 

F.L. Lucas's 

Style: The Art of Writing Well

50. Writing a letter to a friend51. Reading a letter that a writer wrote to a friend (

here're

some)52. Threadless t-shirts53.

Woot

descriptions54. Denny's

Twitter

55. Newspaper headlines56. Wired magazine's colophon57.

Product Hunt

app descriptions58. Movie taglines59. Shark Tank product pitches60. Japanese game showshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAP03tnG9WE61. Mad Libs62.

Brain Pickings

63. Improv podcasts64.

Rainmaker.fm podcasts

65. Longform ads on podcasts

66. Bloomberg Businessweek magazine headlines and

covers

67.

McSweeney's

best of68. Beatles lyrics69. Top 40 lyrics70. Mitch Hedberg one liners71.

Quartz

app72. Paul Jarvis

weekly email

73. This list of headline

formulas

74. Austin Kleon's

Tumblr

75. Calvin and Hobbes

comics

76. Warren Buffet

quotes

77.

On Writing Well

78. The first chapter from

Elements of Style

79. The first sentence of most magazine articles80.

Longreads.com

81. Mallory Orberg at

The Toast

82.

Spencer Hall

at SB Nation83.

Ann Friedman

, anywhere84.

Seth Godin

articles85.

James Altucher

columns86. Crew blog & Twitter87. Greg Ciotti's stuff88. Hymns89.

Where the Sidewalk Ends

90.

MailChimp

 onboarding

91. Tumblr's in-app messages and 404 page

92. Infographics93. Memes94.

This

playlist of piano music95. or

this

playlist of instrumental rock 'n roll96. or

this

ambient soundtrack97. or coffee shop

noise

98. Mark Twain's

travel journal

99. What your friends are sharing from

Nuzzel

100. Whatever's in your

Feedly

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“When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It’s like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”--- Anne Lamott