Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.

Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)

I think this might be my favorite writing quote.

I don’t have a muse. I might have at one point, but apparently I’ve worked him/her so hard that he/she no longer cooperates.

I write every day. Sometimes it’s a very little as I find anything and everything to do before I get to the actual writing part (including blog hopping to every blog in the known universe) but eventually I get someting written down.

None of this waiting for the muse to inspire me crap.

I know a lot of authors talk about their muses, but I don’t get it. I’m not trying to be difficult, I truly don’t get it.

Sometimes the writing goes better than other times…is that because of my muse? I prefer to think it’s because I’m letting the characters speak through me than trying to write them, but is that what the muse lets you do?

I mean, I know no one actually has a little being sitting on their shoulder whispering in their ear, but what does your “muse” mean to you?

Do I actually have one and just prefer to take the credit myself?

You know, if I did have a muse, I hope he’d look like this (I write a lot…I’d need three muses).