My Muse Stopped by For a Chat
Last night, I was all ready to go to sleep. I was in bed and relaxed and to call it a day. Then a familiar voice came whispering in my ear. At first I thought this was one of those brief stops to say a few words, that I would have to hen sit up and grabbing pen and paper from my side table, quickly record. I was wrong.
This was a real visit. A sit down with drinks while my Muse shared things with me. I got up, dressed and headed downstairs quickly. One doesn’t want to piss off one’s Muse. A thousand words later I was allowed to return to bed and hour after I had originally went there. I pulled the covers over me feeling good, contented, and satisfied.
She came back.
She whispered a few more words. Words that she had forgotten to tell me, words I should scribble down before falling asleep. I was a bad writer and failed to do so.
When I got up this morning, I was only halfway through my first cup of coffee, when my Muse came back and re-iterated those words — and rare gift hardly ever bestowed on a errant writer as I. I wasn’t going to push my luck twice. I hopped up and quickly added them to the manuscript.
I was half way through the second cup when she said, ‘gulp that down, we have work to do.’ Being in no position to argue. I gulped it down, kissed my wife and scurried into my study. Then I wrote. and every time I thought I was done, suddenly a new paragraph, a new idea, and new exchange of words.
I only ended up writing 1433 – only I say, like that number is currently common practice these days. The great thing about this mornings progress, was the force of the flow and the fact that when it was over, I had direction to take the novel. The words I wrote opened up other scenes and set the stage for avenues to explore. It was like opening a door in a mansion you’re still trying to familiarize yourself with, to find a map of the main floor painted on the wall.
In short – the last twelve hours have been good ones.
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