Don't laugh!!! You all know it's a big deal!!!
We opine and whine and cry and worry that our Muse is gone, and may never come back. – mostly we joke – but there is that riptide of doubt that we are speaking the truth.
What if Our Muse isn't really missing?
Or on vacation or hiatus or whatever other hopeful euphemism we can think of?
What if the TRUTH is that she just can't make her way past the piled up sticky notes lining the corridors of our minds in time to answer the call before the machine picks up? What if she was just being smothered by the fat, slimy weight of our gluttonous, uncontrolled, mental Jabba the Hut?
What if there is a way to actually end the creative paralysis we feel and make beautiful things?
Sometimes I find answers to these kinds of questions on the web…..
Yes – there is more to the Internet than endless in-your-face marketing and unsolicited virtual booty calls.
There is beauty, art, news, and dare I say it: thoughtful, insightful writing on difficult subjects.
This post at Men With Pens made me squirm a bit: Are You Hoarding Ideas? The first reaction was Of course I am! – I'm a freakin' wire jewelry artist!!! I'm supposed to be journaling in mixed media and tearing inspirational adverts from the glossy pages of Vanity Fair – trolling every jewelry forum on the web and bookmarking the 'good stuff'. You know – the things all of us 'artists' are encouraged to do????
And then came that Third Wave…..you know, the one where you realize that you might have just missed a really perfect opportunity to help both yourself and others you care about?
This idea is really important to my circle, my Tribe, my 'community' – in fact, it may be the cure to one of the biggest problems any of us talk about: Our Missing Muse.
OMG. I'm sooooo going to try it. I'm going to empty the little nooks and crannies – let things go – even the 'good' stuff that evidently wasn't so damn good that I actually did anything with it any time in the last however freakin' long.
Maybe the Muse will be able to pick up next time and tell me I've won the Creative Lottery! This gives new meaning to 'Publisher's Clearing House'……..
I know you've been there……so what do you think? – tell me about it……
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