Feed Your Muse!

Last week I ended my post, My Muse has Made Me! with "They [muses] can make or break you as a writer. You just need to feed them!" and so this week I'm going to tell you about my lifestyle and what I feed my muse.



I consider myself a really creative person---I draw, I write, I'm very jealous of people who can sing or play a musical instrument, and I have a broad imagination.



By 'feeding' your muse you must first acknowledge that you have a muse. My friend told me that she didn't have a muse---this left me a little despondent, I wasn't sure how to react, she had to have an inner muse, that something living inside of her, that creative spirit. Whatever you want to call it, muse, creative spirit, inspiration etc.



Whatever you're calling it, it's supposed to leave you with a feeling, or a perspective that only you may see, or something that resonates inside. You'll know the feeling.



It's all about the senses and being open for inspiration! In fact, this quote sums up what a muse does---it allows you to think of everything in creative terms, depending on how open you are.



"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." - Sylvia Plath






SIGHTS: I'll start with sights. Here are two very different pictures, different in many ways, one is the colour, the other is the content in the emotions that they might give.






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Picture A might affect me more because I grew up on a council estate, which is where Google images told me this was from, and it's quite an accurate portrayal to be honest, everyone is always up to mischief. And if you go back to images of where you grew up you will always find inspiration, even if it's in the smallest detail.






SOUND: Now onto music! This is what my muse is being fed lately---it's a range of music--but here it is, and this is not everything, just some of my faves at the moment.



Neon Hitch - F**k U Betta

Azealia Banks - 212

Marina & the Diamonds - Primadonna

Click the links for Youtube.

I think you should always give your muse a selection of music, maybe something that you wouldn't normally listen to because  there could be a word or a phrase or a beat that gets you thinking. And it doesn't do you any harm.




FOOD: I'm going to go out on a limb here...but I'm sure that there are a few of you who feed your muses food...well, pictures of food. I know that I do!




  



Now I'm really hungry! Looking at all of those pictures of food and not having any. Another reason why I picked food is because even the things that you're so used to like ice cream and coffee, they always have other points to talk about. Look at the rainbow colour of the ice cream, do you reckon it tastes like vanilla or of different fruits. And that coffee, what are those red sprinkles? Do they have a taste to them? etc. it just gets you thinking and you can speculate on it---there are no right or wrong answers, after all, it is fiction.




BEAUTY: Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think of something as being beautiful if it is aesthetically pleasing, other people can see the beauty in disorder and chaos etc. but below are two pictures, one of Francisco Lachowski -ahhh- and the other is a picture. As soon as I saw the picture I was drawn into it, it's just beautiful.






 



I hope that's enough to get your started, and I hope your muse is hungry! Go treat it! Take it to Tumblr and scroll through endless pages of *ahem* procrastination. If you treat your muse, it will treat you!




And if you'd like to see more scantly clad men then go to my Tumblr, there are also a lot of guys kissing, so if that makes you uncomfortable don't click the link. Haha.




Are you going to treat your muse?





-Joseph





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