Conversations: The Muse & I

scribbler wanders about and finds muse sitting, hunched over a laptop and clacking away

:pokes muse:

"What are you doing?" the scribbler asks.

"Shh. I'm working," says the muse.

"On what?" :peer's over shoulder: "Uh-huh." It's blue. Lots of blue.

"It involves rain," the muse answers. "I like rain."

"Let me guess," asks the scribbler. "It's in Vardin."

"Wouldn't you like to know," the muse mutters back.

"Have you considered working on something due, like A Deadly Woman?" asks the scribbler, somewhat irritated.

The muse waves this off. "In the bag."

:taken aback: "Care to share with your hands and your feet?"

"Well, it's simple..."

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Apparently, I just had to ask nice. :headdesk:

Driveby Journaling: Quotable

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.” -Ira Glass


Also,
 

Flight Risk by Seriana Ritani

"Thanks," Warren answered politely, still trying to work out just what Kurt was. "Nice, um, fur."

"Thanks. Ze ladies love it, but you wouldn't believe how fast I go through conditioner."

Highly recc'd.

Cheering myself up with a little loveliness.

P.A.R.K.S. Patrol| parks & rec/marvel. by lookslikelove

In ages past...

I was known as a chatterbox. I go through spurts of that online. Anyone want me to stick to a limit on # of posts per day? I hate to alienate my f-list because I apparently sometimes live online.