Lost and Found Muses

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A place where authors can share tips and tricks for finding those lost muses when they need them. Mine hide under my bed at night. They come out when I least expect it and often when I don't want them to. How do you keep writing when your muse hides?

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Lost your muse? Found your muse? Want to know what a muse is? This is where you need to be!

Muse: In Greek mythology, the Muses (Greek Μοῦσαι, Mousai: perhaps from the Proto-Indo-European root *men- "think"[1]) are a sisterhood of goddesses or spirits, their number set at nine by Classical times, who embody the arts and inspire the creation process with their graces through remembered and improvised song and stage, writing, traditional music, and dance. They were water nymphs, associated with the springs of Helicon and with Pieris, from which they are sometimes called the Pierides. The Olympian system set Apollo as their leader, Apollon Mousagetēs. Not only are the Muses explicitly used in modern English to refer to an inspiration, as when one cites his/her own artistic muse, but they are also implicit in the words "amuse" or "musing upon".[2]

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

All members of Lost and Found Muses are encouraged to share their tips and techniques of dealing with the muses that keep us tapping at the keyboard or scrawling across paper in the wee hours of the night with a pencil worn down to the nub.

Do you have a way to keep yourself organized in your writing endeavors that you think would help your fellow authors?

What inspires you to write and what methods do you use to get unblocked when you hit the writer's block wall of doom?

Do you work all alone, or do you have a critique group to help you get everything submission ready?

Share here and read up on what everyone else does to stay on top of the creative tidal wave.

-Anastasia Rabiyah
(Visit me on the web at: RabiyahBooks.com)

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Comment by ann campbell on January 9, 2009 at 12:15am: I try to take a nap in a quiet place when my muse is on vacation. I let my mind wander and I watch the scenes play like a movie on the backs of my eyelids. Crazy? Maybe, but it works for me so who cares.

Comment by Sandra Kosmalski on August 22, 2008 at 6:20pm: Whenever I think of my muse, I remember Peter Pan sewing his capricious shadow to his feet. She is just as allusive, then for whatever reason I will be having a perfectly good nights sleep, and a character will appear in the midst of some compelling episode. Argh! I thought she was gone(my fickle muse)...good riddence. . .off with her head and her tormenting demands. After brushing her off in a mental battle of wits-she wins. I am up and at it. She comes and goes at will like a spoiled arrogant cat.
This ambivalent relationship has been going on now for more than 40 years. In my case, unfortunately, she does not seem to care whether money, recognition, publishing, or even sharing...it isn't relevant. She shares her tale and insists it be written.
ugh,
llk

Comment by Dawne' Dominique on April 9, 2008 at 11:21am: Writing Characters: Are your character(s) the inspiration that makes you write and continue to do so? Or does something kick you (like an oustanding plot) and you think...Man, that would be a great tale to share. For me, it's usually a character. They come to me in flashes and then they won't shut up!

Comment by GERI'S BOOK REVIEWS on March 30, 2008 at 8:23pm: This is a Very Interesting Group & the First I joined on this subject.
I know in my heart that my own Comfort Zone to get that pen moving
again is different of course than the Comfort Zone for many of my writing friends--but I can share my own! From 1995 to Now--there were times when I was forced to face a crisis in my life--as Many of us do--An Unexpected crisis--that's when my Writer's block set in & froze my pen from moving! I found that during times of Extremestress-- In order to get my Muse back--I craved for "A Calming Atmosphere." I'd have to
look at the Ocean--or sit by a pool--alone--focusing on thoughts I
needed to bring to paper. A walk to look at Flowers in bloom Or
a walk with my dog in a cheerful environment--after a day of just
going on a Mental Vacation as such---it Always helped me to get
my Muse back to where I wanted it! When my writing friends have
times of distress--I always suggest---get out of the house--take a
Mental vacation--Pretend your really on vacation--do something u
love to do--me--it's Gardening--for a friend--it may be Photography--
Many of my friends told me that one day in fact really Helped
enough to get their Muse back!

Comment by Debbie Wallace on March 22, 2008 at 11:53am: My muse usually comes out when I'm as far away from my computer or anything to write with as I can be. I'll be driving somewhere, in the shower, grocery shopping, babysitting, you name it. Does anyone carry around a tape recorder with them? LOL