What does your Muse look like?

basilsands · 09-28-2010, 04:27 PM

Is your Muse a real person, an object, or an imaginary spirit like being? Can you see them? If so what do they look like?

NickSpalding · 09-28-2010, 06:13 PM

Megan Fox.

Going on the proviso that if I'm going to have an imaginary person sitting there expecting me to write brilliance, they can sure as hell do me the favour of looking hot.

Steven Lyle Jordan · 09-28-2010, 06:43 PM

(I had to stop and think about this one...)

My muse looks like a pulp novel. Specifically, one in a garish overall shade, with Doc Savage on the cover, poised to do battle with some outlandish death-dealing device behind him.

Those are the books that spurred me to read voraciously as a youth, and whose page-turning excitement I try to emulate.

DaringNovelist · 09-28-2010, 11:36 PM

I once did an essay about my Muse(s). I'll have to dig it up.

The upshot of it was that my brain was populated by writers I admire (all of whom were sitting behind me and writing much more and better than I was - demoralizing) and then my characters tried to do the job, but they were all fighting for attention (except the one I needed to work with), and by the end of the essay was was feeling like I was in Groucho's stateroom in Night At The Opera. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3MtT6FajGI)

I wanted my muse to be Tommy Lee Jones (in character as Deputy Sam Gerard ) or William Daniels as John Adams ( pacing behind me as I wrote, saying "Get on with it woman!") But in the end I had to admit that I thought my Muse was really Calvert DeForrest - the character actor who played Larry Bud Melman on the old NBC Letterman Show. Sitting in a lazyboy, eating cheetos and whining about what was on TV.

Camille

TC Beacham · 09-29-2010, 07:04 AM

My muse is the sea - any place, any time! There's something about the movement, colors, and endless view that makes my imagination soar.

kennyc · 09-29-2010, 07:08 AM

The Universe.

basilsands · 09-29-2010, 06:43 PM

Sounds like a lot of you have some really interesting muses. I don't know if I'd get along with a bunch of other writer ghosts running about judging my work. I'd just curl and cry at the sense of ultimate inadequacy.

While the ocean and nature can definitely inspire me I believe I have two more close to human muses. Incredibly beautiful ones at that. The first has silky long black hair and a smile that sparkles brighter than the morning star. She whispers in my ear. Her breath sends shivers of pleasure through my entire body. She sings and points to things of beauty that I otherwise may not have noticed.
Her rival is a rather gabby individual. Her hair is also black and shiny but is tied back tight and ends in a pony tail that bounces and snaps like a whip when she moves her head. She doesn't sparkle, she pops. Constantly talking and jabbering and tossing ideas into my brain pot at such a rate that I can barely digest one before the next comes barreling in. Perky is a word that might describe her…. or caffeinated.
Mercifully the two seldom appear at the same time. They are rather abrasive toward one another when they are together. The poetess starts making vulgar rhymes and the perky one ends up slapping her.
But they are both very hot. They are sultry and sexy and drive me crazy. And I quite enjoy both of their company.
Does that make me a polygamist?

montsnmags · 09-30-2010, 02:15 AM

My muse is simple, and well-known to long-timers here - an invisible and inadvertently-violent gibbon called "Adrian". He's got way more friends than me, is quite gregarious, and has a tendency to be autonomous (at least from the stories I hear from other people here), but he usually comes through in a bind. He doesn't look like much, being invisible, but I suspect he wears a beanie that matches my avatar's.

Sometimes he drinks...sometimes he shouts the drinks. It all helps.

basilsands · 09-30-2010, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

My muse is simple, and well-known to long-timers here - an invisible and inadvertently-violent gibbon called "Adrian". He's got way more friends than me, is quite gregarious, and has a tendency to be autonomous (at least from the stories I hear from other people here), but he usually comes through in a bind. He doesn't look like much, being invisible, but I suspect he wears a beanie that matches my avatar's.

Sometimes he drinks...sometimes he shouts the drinks. It all helps.

Hmmmm.....a violent alcoholic gibbon named Adrian.

...caution rises as our hero steps into the creative chamber. Will today be the day he writes that masterpiece which propels him to untold fame? Or will the ape tear him to pieces and propel him through the window. The facade of calm holds as he stretches forth his hand, the bottle of gin an offering to the Literary Gibbon.

montsnmags · 09-30-2010, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by basilsands

Hmmmm.....a violent alcoholic gibbon named Adrian.

...caution rises as our hero steps into the creative chamber. Will today be the day he writes that masterpiece which propels him to untold fame? Or will the ape tear him to pieces and propel him through the window. The facade of calm holds as he stretches forth his hand, the bottle of gin an offering to the Literary Gibbon.

Basil...now you're starting to scare me. The defenestration, the gin, the mutual antagonism...GET...OUT...OF...MY...HEAD!

bthrowsnaill · 10-01-2010, 08:38 AM

My muses are music and dreams. Of the two, music is most often my source of inspiration. Without it I doubt that I could write anything imaginative.

P.A.Woodburn · 10-04-2010, 01:50 AM

I had a dream the night before last--where I was an onlooker. The dream was quite violent and suspenseful, and I felt my subconscious or muse was saying,"This is how you do it. This is how you get real tension. Now watch it remember it." All action no extranaeous stuff which I love to put in.

I don't live a violent life(thank goodness), so sometimes it is hard to imagine violence, but that is what I want to write about. That keeps the pages turning.

Ann

basilsands · 10-05-2010, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by P.A.Woodburn

I had a dream the night before last--where I was an onlooker. The dream was quite violent and suspenseful, and I felt my subconscious or muse was saying,"This is how you do it. This is how you get real tension. Now watch it remember it." All action no extranaeous stuff which I love to put in.

I don't live a violent life(thank goodness), so sometimes it is hard to imagine violence, but that is what I want to write about. That keeps the pages turning.

Ann

Isn't it amazing how it is as if muse is sometimes within us and sometimes external. Any how they can give us insight into things we've never even done, or for some of us, to channel our past experiences into something people accept as fiction.

Valmore Daniels · 10-05-2010, 07:28 PM

There's a little troll named George who whispers these stories in my ear when I sleep.

basilsands · 10-05-2010, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Valmore Daniels

There's a little troll named George who whispers these stories in my ear when I sleep.

Is he potty trained? I'ver heard terrible things about troll hygeine.

09-28-2010, 04:27 PM	#1
basilsands Arctic Warrior Posts: 85 Karma: 50000 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Anchorage, Alaska Device: kindle	What does your Muse look like? Is your Muse a real person, an object, or an imaginary spirit like being? Can you see them? If so what do they look like?

09-29-2010, 06:43 PM	#7
basilsands Arctic Warrior Posts: 85 Karma: 50000 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Anchorage, Alaska Device: kindle	Sounds like a lot of you have some really interesting muses. I don't know if I'd get along with a bunch of other writer ghosts running about judging my work. I'd just curl and cry at the sense of ultimate inadequacy. While the ocean and nature can definitely inspire me I believe I have two more close to human muses. Incredibly beautiful ones at that. The first has silky long black hair and a smile that sparkles brighter than the morning star. She whispers in my ear. Her breath sends shivers of pleasure through my entire body. She sings and points to things of beauty that I otherwise may not have noticed. Her rival is a rather gabby individual. Her hair is also black and shiny but is tied back tight and ends in a pony tail that bounces and snaps like a whip when she moves her head. She doesn't sparkle, she pops. Constantly talking and jabbering and tossing ideas into my brain pot at such a rate that I can barely digest one before the next comes barreling in. Perky is a word that might describe her…. or caffeinated. Mercifully the two seldom appear at the same time. They are rather abrasive toward one another when they are together. The poetess starts making vulgar rhymes and the perky one ends up slapping her. But they are both very hot. They are sultry and sexy and drive me crazy. And I quite enjoy both of their company. Does that make me a polygamist? Last edited by basilsands; 09-29-2010 at 06:49 PM.

10-04-2010, 01:50 AM	#12
P.A.Woodburn Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 30000 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: none	I had a dream I had a dream the night before last--where I was an onlooker. The dream was quite violent and suspenseful, and I felt my subconscious or muse was saying,"This is how you do it. This is how you get real tension. Now watch it remember it." All action no extranaeous stuff which I love to put in. I don't live a violent life(thank goodness), so sometimes it is hard to imagine violence, but that is what I want to write about. That keeps the pages turning. Ann

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NickSpalding Addict Posts: 270 Karma: 1041222 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: UK Device: Kindle	Megan Fox. Going on the proviso that if I'm going to have an imaginary person sitting there expecting me to write brilliance, they can sure as hell do me the favour of looking hot.

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Steven Lyle Jordan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5171130 Join Date: Jan 2006 Device: none	(I had to stop and think about this one...) My muse looks like a pulp novel. Specifically, one in a garish overall shade, with Doc Savage on the cover, poised to do battle with some outlandish death-dealing device behind him. Those are the books that spurred me to read voraciously as a youth, and whose page-turning excitement I try to emulate.

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DaringNovelist Addict Posts: 197 Karma: 1010202 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: iPod Touch	I once did an essay about my Muse(s). I'll have to dig it up. The upshot of it was that my brain was populated by writers I admire (all of whom were sitting behind me and writing much more and better than I was - demoralizing) and then my characters tried to do the job, but they were all fighting for attention (except the one I needed to work with), and by the end of the essay was was feeling like I was in Groucho's stateroom in Night At The Opera. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3MtT6FajGI) I wanted my muse to be Tommy Lee Jones (in character as Deputy Sam Gerard ) or William Daniels as John Adams ( pacing behind me as I wrote, saying "Get on with it woman!") But in the end I had to admit that I thought my Muse was really Calvert DeForrest - the character actor who played Larry Bud Melman on the old NBC Letterman Show. Sitting in a lazyboy, eating cheetos and whining about what was on TV. Camille

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TC Beacham Great Beach Reads! Posts: 202 Karma: 300000 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: Kindle 2	My muse is the sea - any place, any time! There's something about the movement, colors, and endless view that makes my imagination soar.

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montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	My muse is simple, and well-known to long-timers here - an invisible and inadvertently-violent gibbon called "Adrian". He's got way more friends than me, is quite gregarious, and has a tendency to be autonomous (at least from the stories I hear from other people here), but he usually comes through in a bind. He doesn't look like much, being invisible, but I suspect he wears a beanie that matches my avatar's. Sometimes he drinks...sometimes he shouts the drinks. It all helps.

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bthrowsnaill Dreamer Posts: 112 Karma: 501282 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Philadelphia, PA Device: kindle	My muses are music and dreams. Of the two, music is most often my source of inspiration. Without it I doubt that I could write anything imaginative.

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Valmore Daniels Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,592 Karma: 2822668 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Kindle	There's a little troll named George who whispers these stories in my ear when I sleep.

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