I was particularly charmed by the idea of the muse being out in the woods when the writer is at the keyboard. And then I thought ... if the muse isn't in your office, maybe you shouldn't be either. Where is your muse -- in the woods, in a museum, in a bookstore? Go find her. There you'll find the thread of the story you had lost.
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- Elizabeth Barrette (
ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
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Jane Yolen on Writing
I was particularly charmed by the idea of the muse being out in the woods when the writer is at the keyboard. And then I thought ... if the muse isn't in your office, maybe you shouldn't be either. Where is your muse -- in the woods, in a museum, in a bookstore? Go find her. There you'll find the thread of the story you had lost.
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Birdfeeding
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Goldenrod Gall Contents
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April 9 2010, 17:24:24 UTC 11 years ago
but she left me last year...
i think it's a sign of improved mental health,
although i did feel like the ventriloquist whose dummy left him...
April 9 2010, 19:52:43 UTC 11 years ago
So, like a Vogon, I push onward. "Evolution, who needs it?" And 15 minutes a day per story usually ticks them off enough they come back with all kinds of new ideas.
*laugh*
April 9 2010, 22:01:43 UTC 11 years ago
Sometimes my muses wander far, afar ... but for me, if I can't go there in person, research usually scratches the itch well enough for us to get back to work. YMMV.
April 9 2010, 19:59:02 UTC 11 years ago
When I'm at work, I want to write. When I ride my bike, I want to write. When I'm in the garden weeding, I want to write.
Then when I grab the computer, it slinks out of the door and sits there sniggering...
*laugh*
April 9 2010, 21:52:44 UTC 11 years ago
April 9 2010, 20:04:50 UTC 11 years ago
April 13 2010, 02:27:19 UTC 11 years ago
And she'll sit on the edge of the pool in my brain and splash water at me with her toes. It's most annoying [g].
So then I take my netbook elsewhere, and she's happy to go with me and behave. I write best everywhere but home.
*laugh*
April 13 2010, 05:41:37 UTC 11 years ago