To Thine Own Muse Be True

Dear Living Dark reader,

“Your muse, daimon, genius possesses its own will and its own ways, and it visits and energizes you as and when it desires. Inspiration comes and goes. Your task is not to generate inspiration, and certainly not to control it, but to channel it, and to do so by whatever means necessary, so that when it shows up, you are there to listen, receive, and bring into being what it is intent on giving the world through you.”

Those words are from the fifth chapter of Writing at the...