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Just out of curiosity, FoLCs. What's your muse like? Is she a zany bunny-slippered person? Does he sit in the dark alot or play with army tanks all day? Does it run on a little wheel and eat cheese?

Also, does your muse tend to focus on one fic at a time, or jump from WIP to WIP like a really annoying grasshopper?

Petulant Grasshopper...yeah...I think that says it all. Though I could go on...she's moody, childish, and sometimes illogical (plot? what plot? <g>).

Sara

Lazy, completely irresponsible, belligerent, mule-headed and a pain in the butt, most days.

Oh, she's awake. Er...sweet, intelligent, hard-working, brilliant....

LabRat

Depends on what I'm writing. I seem to have more than one muse, or at least, a multi-personality muse. In one fandom, it's an angsty, brooding vampire. In others, it's a fire-breathing dragon, and it doesn't take it well when you say "no". In some, it's a hyper, bouncy bunny that will niggle you until you do what it wants. And in some, it's a pesky fairy with a magic plot wand.

I hope that makes some sense.

I don't have a muse. I write what I want to write when I have time to write. I can't believe there is a little mythical being telling me what to write and making my fingers type. I like to believe my own mind makes its own decisions.

However, I have a multi-track mind, and I often work on more than one story at once. It's why I sometimes post stories in a flurish. I usually finish stories in spurts.

- Laura

Muse? A pesky little thing that bugs me when I don't have time to write and turns her back on me as soon as I open a WORD file. And when she *does* agree to work, she decides to either start another WIP, or else work on anything BUT what I want her to work on. An annoyance, really. But I still love and need her.

Kaethel (posting from lovely Ontario and hoping this holiday will lure the Muse out of wherever she hid all those months )

Mine's absolutely non-existent right now. She'll only pop out if she realizes that there's free-time to dominate. She's very one-track, one story at a time. And small, too. She gets really impatient when stories exceed the third page.

JD

No longer speaking to me. That's how I would describe her. And for no reason that she'll volunteer, just not talking.

But when she's lively, she feels exactly like a bowl of gerbils dumped into my head. I know. It has taken me years to be able to confess that out loud.

Generally, it's when I'm minding my own business, trying to get something done, and bang, in a fuzzy flurry of arms and legs, she's there, chasing round and round in circles. And the only way to shut her up and stop the wheel from squeaking is to write.

Alas, she is very quiet now. Hibernating, maybe? Getting set for winter?

Emily, was just wondering where to come by a 'magic plot wand'? Love that! Could use that for two very stalled WIPs. Can you wave it this way?

And, as in every crowd, I see we have a Muse Agnostic:

Ah, Yellow Dart, that's very scientific of you. And I'll give you the pastoral answer to that. It doesn't matter if you don't believe in your muse. Always remember, your muse believes in you.

CC

muses are very, very expensive - require much care, the best wine and top of the line pampering and continual indulgences, like first class tickets to faraway spas.
So don't have one - can't afford it (him? her?)

cc m

My Muse has been kidnapped. I haven't received a ransom note yet, so it could just be that she ran away with that really cute male Muse-next-door. Regardless, she needs to get her booty back here because she has some work to do.

I think she's a cousin of Kaethel's muse, though, because she seems to show up when I have no time to write, is as stubborn as a mule when I do have time to write, and is far more interested in the stories I haven't started than the ones I need finishing.

When she gets back, I'm thinking of selling her. Really cheap. Any offers?

Lynn

My Muse is a very shy creature. She needs a lot of coaxing to even show her face, and if there are strangers around, you're very unlikely to see her at all. She's like a nervous hamster with a twitchy nose - once you coax her out of her nest, she patters quietly around, poking her inquisitive nose in just about every aspect of the story she can lay her paws on but never staying very long in any one spot. On the other hand, if you can persuade her to step onto her hamster wheel, she'll run and run and run. Being a rather inactive rodent, alas, she doesn't do this very often.

Just lately, she seems to have developed the very unattractive habit of sulking when she receives criticism. I'm planning on giving her a stiff talking to this afternoon about this, becuase it's really no good at all if your Muse can't accept that sometimes she doesn't get things right. If you hear any indignant squeaks coming from the general direction of Canada, therefore, you'll know who it is.

Yvonne

I started out with this really cool muse that was really logical and made tons of sense, but he was feeling really insecure sometimes and kept hiding out on me when I tried to write, sometimes sending over his cousin who I believe used to belong to Douglas Adams before he passed on <sad mourning > to put some really silly ideas into my head.

Then just a couple of months ago this big buff muse with a goatee and bullwhip started coming around. He was very intriguing and I kind of got occupied with him more than I should have, but the smart one got all jealous and won't talk to me anymore and his cousin little Dougy refuses to mediate, and in fact keeps offering me rotten salmon instead while whistling "The Bright Side of Life", meanwhile my bully muse tends to pace and glare and keeps asking why I haven't finished yet, and then I have to sit in the box....

I think I've said too much...

TEEEEEEEJ

I guess it's just the scientist in me -- and a neuroscientist at that . I think my brain works by itself in ways that are somewhat well-understood .

I can't tell you how many times I've had people tell me just that in different forms. My mom using a similar variation about foods that are red. The priests at St. Charles telling me something similar at Catholic School. CC about my nonexistant muse . . . it just keeps going .

- Laura

Huh? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always thought the existence of red foods was a matter of cold, hard fact rather than a matter of faith.

Yvonne

For a short span of a week I had a muse that was tall, skinny and had a pet Great Dane. I always felt high when I wrote with him. He kept whispering "give me the hoagie, give me the hoooooagie"

TEEEEEEEJ

As stupid.
Not only does she focus on stories I don't have the time or the will to write at that particular time, but sbe also makes me begin stories only to leave me high and dry a bit later!!

Lately, she moved. Now she only drops by sporadically.

HERE! HERE! I WANT LYNN'S MUSE!! PLEASE!!!

Ahem *clears throat and raises hand* I make an offer, Lynn.

See ya,
AnnaBtG.

/me - who has read Haunting Eden - tackles Anna from behind and pushes her way to the front of the queue, while fending off all potential rivals with a pitchfork....

LabRat

A will 'o wisp. She runs up, whispers a few sentences, and then runs away, laughing and taunting me. And then I won't see her again for several months, no matter how hard I try to chase her. *sigh*

Well...*apparently* I have a correction to make. She is *not* a grasshopper and not moody *or* childish by any means... :rolleyes: . She prefers to be known as a multi-talented, multi-tasking, free spirit-type individual. (*cough* lazy *cough*)

Sara (who's thinking that the apparent new found ability to write an a-plot, must have given her muse a big head )

Well, you have to ask her *very* nicely, or she won't bother to wave it at all. Feeding her chocolate helps.