The Muse is a Stingy Mistress

[RetroLounge]

I had a creative spurt a couple of months ago, and three poems came out over a couple of days.

Then nothing.

And this week, 2 more new ones arrived, unbidden, flowing out to the page.

And now I feel the muse shutting the door once again.

Oh, well. Back to my morning pages in the journal...

How does she treat you creative types?

RL

p.s. Oh, look here in the blog for the new poems: http://www.myspace.com/retropaul

[Gonzo Gardener]

1. My muse packed her bags and left for Tahiti

the first week of November. x(

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

7. Tahiti!

I could write there...

:hi:

RL

[Gonzo Gardener]

15. Book us two tickets to paradise...

and I'll share my muse with you :P

:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear Retro...

My muse has been quiet too...

But my poetry teacher is tutoring me over the internet...

I have homework again!

It helps me a lot to have someone say Write it now!

You just have to keep priming the old pump...

Good luck, sweetie!

:hug:

[Gormy Cuss]

3. No no no -- that's not the title.

(is there a book name equivalent to an "earworm"? :shrug: )


:hi:

[LynzM]

4. The happier I am...

the less my muse has to say. Unless I feed her... :smoke:

[RetroLounge]

16. Yeah, it's funny that way...

:hi:

RL

[zingaro]

5. She jilted me. She broke my heart months ago but

lately, I can almost feel her breath on the back of my neck...

...almost.

[RetroLounge]

17. She's always there, waiting...

:hi:

RL

[elleng]

6. Not a creative type,

but there were a couple times when a poem or two came knocking. NOW I'll have to try to retrieve them!

[DarkTirade]

8. I haven't seen her in a while.

She'll stop by now and then when I'm not expecting it and just expect us to pick up where we left off... 'tis rather cumbersome.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

9. She hangs around for a month, then leaves for at least three months.

[no name no slogan]

10. Let me know if you see her around anywhere

I've got fragments of three or four songs knocking around my brain that I can't seem to finish off.

[Inchworm]

11. My Muse has become a pev

I start writing about trees and snowfall only to end up nekkid by a fire on a bare wooden floor.

:shrug:

[RadiationTherapy]

12. She is relentless and fills me to overwhelming...I long for more free time. nt

[BlueIris]

13. The Muse(s) and I have a contentious relationship at best.

Right now, the Muse of Prose has come back to basically kick my ass for concentrating on my health concerns for six months w/o writing regularly. She's pissed. My punishment? Thinking everything I've written in the last five years was crap (all of it). I'm feeling really, really beaten down.

[RetroLounge]

14. Oh, I know that feeling...

I walked away from my muse for almost a decade.

She is most unforgiving...

RL

[SKKY]

18. I never know if she was there until after the fact....

...When I used to write, I would just sit down and start something, anything. Through all that garbage, I would usually find a line or two that sparked something, and then go from there. It wasn't until after the fact that I would say, "Oh wow. That's not bad." or "WFT?" Unfortunately, I haven't written anything creative, aside from evaluations and awards for my sailors, in a very long time.