What’s your muse?

What’s your muse indeed!

‘Inspired’ by something that came up recently, I tracked down this post I wrote for Women Writers Women Books at the beginning of the year.

Inspiration is a word much bandied about by writers. There’s a good reason for this. We want to feel inspired to write, because then the words flow, snatched from the ether in alluring combinations. We feel like real writers. We feel, well, inspired!

But here’s a little secret. Sometimes it doesn’t work like that. Sometimes it’s a ...