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WPotocki asked about muses. The way it works with me is that sometimes I am bereft of ideas, and at others I am overflowing with them. Mostly depends on my energy level. Often, the books I enjoyed writing most were when I saw the whole thing in my mind before I started. Imagined the scenery, smelt the mountains, felt the rain on my face, saw the whole thing in glorious technicolour, and each day when I sat down to write it was like turning on a movie projector, taking up where I had left the story the day before, then writing until I was exhausted. And so it went. And yet... on other occasions I have painstakingly constructed books when ideas have seemed scarce, but 20 years up the road, on rereading, the latter seem better and the former seem worse. One of the great mysteries.
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Notre Dame -
It's funny that you said that. The muse is definitely connected with the right side of the brain and that's connected with stream of consciousness prose, writing, whatever. While some people vibe, groove and totally get the flow of that kind of writing, most - or a large part of the universe - is put off by it. Especially when a new or unknown writer takes a whack at leaving the writing in that form and not translating it into a more conventional style. I tried it and got evenly mixed hated/loved reviews for it. My next tries were more conventionally written and my left brain was called forth. The jury is still out on those works, but there's a book I'm currently editing that is back to being stream of consciousness. I'm like, should I leave it like this or ... ? I'm changing it to past tense and a conventional style although I really like the dreamlike state.
The problem is I'm running it by someone that enjoys the right brained writing soooo ? Who knows. You please some, you don't others.
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Yeah, a damn friggin schizo insane one that keeps dragging me through the gutters of poetry, writing, art and music...never able to focus on one for long. Recently been working on doing some article writing only to end up back working on a graphite drawing and some digital painting and then out of the blue comes this: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=958
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kennyc -
Yeah, now that's what I'm talkin' about! My kind of muse. The kind that kicks over convention and leads us to and fro until we are frothing from a dizzying spin! Sort of like that old game of statue where someone would just spin you until you fell over. When you did, you had to try and hold the position even though the world was rushing by and your senses had long since become lost to lush longings of continuing to be twirled - endlessly - in fragrant gardens.
Cool.
And to muses everywhere -
You make things interesting.