It doesn’t matter how much you want to write
there are always days when you think not one more word is going to be written.
You search your mind for inspiration to no avail and you think that’s it… your
writing career is over.
Ideas are
an integral part of a writer’s life and sometimes they become illusive leaving
your mind blundering around in the most dramatic, hair pulling “no one else
ever has days like this” kind of way.
With your
muse struggling to cooperate, inspiration can be found in some of the most
unlikeliest places.
“Sing to me
oh Muse”…
The nine
muses of Greek Mythology were deities that gave artists, philosophers and
individuals the necessary inspiration to write. Where are my muses when I’m
struggling?
Inspiration
can be everywhere and nowhere, perhaps just reading a magazine while having a
coffee in your favourite place. People watching (a favourite of mine),
television, dreaming about the handsome hero that saves you from all the bad in
the world. It could be in the dead of night when you’re half asleep and frantically
searching for a pencil and piece of paper, not finding any and ending up
writing them on the wall so as not to forget.
The truth
is that although I have days when I feel like throwing the towel in…I never
would because I love what I do too much and my muse may take a rest now and
then but not for long before I am filling the blank page in front of me with a
new love story that has me sighing, crying and falling in love all over again.
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