Finding Your Muse

Where or where has my little muse gone?
Where oh where can she be?
With her wit so good.
And her snark so strong.
She can’t stay hidden from me!



We need good mojo to write. We have to feel the words flowing like molten lava through our veins, searing our fingertips. It’s magical. An experience that cannot be duplicated in any way….

Okay, so what do you do if your writing muse says, “Thank you. Thank you very much,” and leaves the building?

Well, you could try going back to the beginning of what you wrote and reading everything to the point you lost your mojo. Or go looking for it. Search under every nook and cranny. Get out your compass and map, if your old school and totally awesome like that, or ask Siri where your muse is hiding. I’m sure she’ll know!

Or you could always take the project you’re working on and shove it in a deep, dark hole until lightning strikes and your muse takes up shop again.

That’s what I do.

If I can’t figure out what to write, I put my book away. It could go away for a week, a month…once, it went a way for a full year! Your muse will return, but if you try to force the writing, it’s not going to be pretty. You might as well brace yourself for some crummy work. At least, that’s what happens to me. Maybe your muse fly’s the coop and you produce some top quality work, because again, you’re just awesome like that.

So when I am looking for my muse, I work on something else. I’ll do research for another book I have coming up. Or I’ll go read a book by someone else that has nothing to do with what I’m trying to write. I know at some point, she'll be back. That little devil sitting on my shoulder, telling me what to write.