Muse Elusive

Cheryl Herbsman wrote a great post on the muse and how different writers approach the art of writing. She also included some links to other good ideas on the subject. Her post got me to thinking about this muse business again, so I did a bit of an Internet search to pull together some handy tips for calling those little minxes when you need one of them. That’s not what I found, but I did find lots of tips for putting those thoughts down with or without Calliope, Erato, Melpomene, or Thalia on your shoulder. I guess if you get them all you can put something down paper that’s worthy.

How to Call in Your Writing Muse offers some very sensible ways to move ahead in that W.I.P.

Here’s something that I found interesting, an interview with writing teacher, Mark David Gerson.

I liked these 7 Writers Muse Kickers to Fill Up That Blank Page.Starting is sometimes the hardest part. In fact, I’ve sometimes resorted to writing the end first. It’s sort of like setting up a target, and then going back and taking aim.

Do you have a muse? Do you wait for inspiration before you sit down to write or do you sit down and hope that your brain will offer up what you need that day?

About The Author

A native Californian, C. Lee McKenzie has always been a writer, but to eat and make contributions to children's college funds, she's also been a university lecturer and administrator. Lee's written and published non-fiction articles, both in her field of Linguistics and Inter-cultural Communication, and in general readership magazines. For five years Lee wrote, edited, and published a newsletter for U.S. university professors who were managing global classroom issues.  Read more about C. Lee McKenzie.

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