I woke up at four in the morning with an idea for how a character's hair works. That sounds weird (likely because it is), but it will make sense in the context of the story. I'd never thought about her hair beyond what it looked like, but this new midnight insight actually adds to her character in ways that I hadn't thought about, and helps along the solution to a problem I was having trouble cracking. One idea begets another and so on.
If you wait until the muse visits to do creative things, you aren't going to get very much accomplished. But when it does whisper in your ear, you'd better listen, and have something handy to write on.
Published on December 05, 2019 17:26