Is there someone (or something) that inspires you in your creative spirit in endeavors that involve writing, painting, singing, or musical composition? Is there a voice of inspiration that you eagerly wait for in your head that is welcome in your brain any time of the day? This is that quiet voice that lets you know when you’ve found your next masterpiece.
The Muses were the Greek goddesses (or the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne) who presided over the arts. These enchanted females were: Aoede (song), Melete (meditation), Mneme (memory), Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (lyric poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (religious music), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy). A shrine to the Muses was called a museum. An artist about to begin work would call on his particular Muse to inspire him. If you enjoy writing, here are interesting ways to keep your inspiration alive and vital. (You may find the methods given may be successful with a variety of creative endeavors.):
1.
Don’t Force It: You can’t pretend
something. Your writing is your relationship with your imagination and you
can’t fake any relationship and expect it to flourish! If it doesn’t feel
natural to you, put it away for another day, start a new project or just simply
take the day off. If the writing doesn’t feel right to you, chances are it
won’t feel right to your readers. Take the time it needs for you to love what
you’ve produced! Your art is your baby and you can’t raise it overnight!
2.
Get out: Get a new
perspective. Try changing your surroundings to bring on some needed motivation.
Sometimes inspiration finds you while you’re out living life.
3. Read: Sometimes you just have to stop
writing for a while. A great break from writing is reading. Books are an excellent
exercise for your imagination, which can also open up a gateway to ideas that
might have been locked away or forgotten. When you explore stories you love, you
can’t help but be inspired by a chapter, a line, or even one word.
4.
Turn up the tunes: Music inspires a
bad day to a wonderful one when it comes to writing. Music gives emotional
inspiration for a writer’s creation.
Writing is all about taking your emotions, and applying it to your work. If
it’s fictional you take your sorrows, hopes, dreams, greatest joys, fears, and
plug them into your characters, if its non-fiction, then pour your passion of
opinion into it and allow it to breathe. Music can put us all in the correct
place needed to inspire us all into the best writing possible. (For creating
for my blog, I write to peaceful instrumental music on Pandora.)
5.
Writing prompts: Even if you’re
stuck on one story, you can still write. ! Writers block doesn’t cripple you,
it just delays you. Don’t waste time dwelling on what you can’t figure out and
just continue to be creative every day. A good thing to do is write something in
a journal each day. It can be anything including poetry or sketching. This
helps to provide your brain with well-needed break.
“The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.” (Terry Brooks) [i]
[i] Sources used:
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“5 Ways to
Find Your Muse” by
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“Muse” from Dictionary.com, Merriam-Webster, and Cambridge
English Dictionary
Dedicated to Gracie White
Dedicated to Gracie White
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