Ellis Vidler's Blog, page 32

Calling Down Your Muse

My muse is nothing if not unpredictable. She strikes without warning at the most inconvenient times, such as when I'm driving and have no way to write, but she rarely appears when I sit down at my computer. I've spent enough hours staring at a blank screen to have written the Lord of the Rings. (That's when the siren call of Spider Solitaire lures me in.)
I once advised students to type a sentence, any sentence, and then begin editing it to call up their muse. You know, Mary had a little...