muse | muse
Jul.12.2010
It was a few years ago now that I met a man struck with the ability to remember virtually anything and everything he read. It started while he was teaching his daughter math and it kept on going into telephone books and random applications, groups like the audience at the lecture earlier. It was...
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Jun.21.2010
What’s that in your hand?
Why?
I can see a bit of light through your fingers.
It’s a memory..well actually more than one memory.
Can you share it?
No – and who is talking to me?
It’s your muse.
I don’t believe in a muse.
Then who is it that is speaking to you?
I think it's the younger woman that...
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May.24.2010
This morning, I woke up with a horrendous case of Writer's Block. You know the kind: written yourself into a corner, can't get out, will never get out, there goes the whole book… In the past, I've spent weeks and even months worrying about Writer's Block. I've written endless pages about how I wish...
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Mar.05.2010
Before I get into my normal rambling, I’d like to give a shout out for my Backspace friends and their March releases and March is a busy month.
March 1 had three releases, Claudia Gray’s HOURGLASS, Clea Simon’s GREY MATTERS and J. T. Ellison – THE COLD ROOM. March 2nd releases include...
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Mar.01.2010
There’s something about inspiration, about the supposed “gift” from a muse. I know she means well, but does she ever think of how inspiration feels to humans?
It is fear, it is terror at losing the incredible thoughts you have before putting them to use.
It is indescribably joy at the rush of...
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Jan.15.2010
Sounds ominous, doesn’t it? It should. My muse is evading me and I’m beginning to wonder if it has assumed an alias and a disguise and maybe even moved away. Who knows. Lucky for me, I have no compunction against stalking. It’s a skill I developed, like most females, in junior high. Most females...
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Jan.09.2010
Okay, I'm back, having been spread so thin you could read a small-print book through me. I've been writing regularly now for oh, at least a couple of days.
I got tired of listening to that nagging voice inside. I got tired of waiting for the muse. What a crock that is. Besides which, I don't really...
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Nov.09.2009
Somebody is advertising a product absolutely guaranteed to kill writer's block. You'll get chains that will keep your muse bound in your basement to do your bidding. Words, muse. I want words. Deliver. And it can be yours for just a Tiny! Small! Fee!
For heaven's sake. Writers' block isn't a...
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Nov.02.2009
Day two of Write Nonfiction in November has dawned. Are you feeling the pressure of moving forward with your nonfiction writing project? Are you fingers sitting over the keyboard and...not moving? Do you know what you want to write but are you having trouble getting the words to flow? Or are you...
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Oct.10.2009
Lila Klapman's "Muse" is, for me, one of the stand out sculptural pieces in this year 's Open Studios Art Tour 2009 - on display 2581 Mission St., Santa Cruz, CA 95060. Final weekend: Oct. 17 & 18, 11 AM - 6 PM. Lila is catalog artist #92.
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