I wrote scene #1 of A Zombie Romance in minutes. The only editting required was the deletion of a few extraneous adjectives and adverbs and some punctuation tweaks. That week, I could write anything (or believed I could) brain to paper, and like the result. It was heaven. The following week was very different.
I'm not inclined to believe in muses. At least not when writing is easy. But when it isn't, blaming a muse has appeal.
Getting scene #2 of A Zombie Romance down was a hair pulling experience. I wrote more than 4000 words to get the 500 I ended up with and I'm still not satisfied with those. I ran down one rabbit hole after another, couldn't turn around and was forced to back out. I finally had to just post it and forget it. It's a bit of fun after all and I needed to get back to real work.
Unfortunately last week, my muse, if there be one, was no more interested in real work than she was in a bit of fun. *sigh*
How about you? Do you have a muse? Is she faithful or fickle?
Something that's helping me write today: the courage to fail inspired by this quote from Will Rogers: "If you hit the bull's eye every time, you're standing too close to the target."
I'm not inclined to believe in muses. At least not when writing is easy. But when it isn't, blaming a muse has appeal.
Getting scene #2 of A Zombie Romance down was a hair pulling experience. I wrote more than 4000 words to get the 500 I ended up with and I'm still not satisfied with those. I ran down one rabbit hole after another, couldn't turn around and was forced to back out. I finally had to just post it and forget it. It's a bit of fun after all and I needed to get back to real work.
Unfortunately last week, my muse, if there be one, was no more interested in real work than she was in a bit of fun. *sigh*
How about you? Do you have a muse? Is she faithful or fickle?
Something that's helping me write today: the courage to fail inspired by this quote from Will Rogers: "If you hit the bull's eye every time, you're standing too close to the target."
