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ilysia_039

On Muses and their Inscrutable Ways

Jan 25, 2009 00:24

As anyone who's ever started a writing project of any kind will know, muses tend to disappear on vacation at the least opportune moments. My muse, who's been hanging around for a while, drinking my tea and eating my chocolate-covered pretzels (more on those later) and generally being kind and benevolent, has deserted me. Right in the middle of a ( Read more... )

muse, insanity, writing

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thelasteddis January 25 2009, 07:30:45 UTC

Just don't sacrifice GOATS.
Because we all know where that gets you.

And have you tried eating pasta with Mizzithra cheese? Like you can get at the Old Spaghetti Factory? Apparently Homer ate only that while writing The Illiad. I mean, not from the Old Spaghetti Factory. He just ate the pasta.

ilysia_039 January 25 2009, 18:27:43 UTC

Actually, I was intending to use my sister, but now that I think on it, the police might not look too kindly on that.

Did he? Really? Because I could do that, so long as I had my trusty tea and chocolate-covered pretzels as well.

darkiknowwell January 25 2009, 21:16:22 UTC

Ice-skating tonight! :)

rosaleeluann January 26 2009, 01:56:51 UTC

Muses are fickle, flighty creatures. I've learned to obey their pokes and prods when they deign to bestow them on you, but on those all-too-frequent occasions when they leave, no amount of cursing, hair-tearing, or tempting with goodies will bring them back.

But I do get stuff done on the rare occasions mine hangs around. The very rare occasions. (More's the pity. Can't get just to her hanging around...)