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I was really hoping to have an entry for the Halloween contest, but my brain has decided to douse me in depression, which has cut off my writing spoons.
maybe I will get lucky and it will lift in time for me to finish the story, but I just dont know.
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You be you...
Don't be like my 'alternate Scheherazade.'
The title said it all:
"Scheherazade and the 997 Arabian Nights - And the Worst-Ever Case of Writer's Block."
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No need to apologize.
I don't know any numbers at all ...
How many visitors - readers who don't even have an account ... ?
How many people with accounts - write nothing, not even comments (me, for maybe 5 years) ... ?
How many people (of those with accounts) become authors ... ?
How many authors have less than 5 stories ...
How many authors, Dorothy, have =hundreds= of stories ...?
And you think you need to apologize because why?
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2,000+ years ago, the Greeks thought the Muses were a collection of Goddesses who could grant to, or withhold inspiration from, artists.
Maybe 'Modern Science' has a better understanding after two millennia ...
About all I know is that if we 'saturate' our brains on a problem ... Poke it, prod it, try some solutions (that don't work), push really hard. and then -
We give up. We go sideways. Visit a park, a friend, a nifty restauarnt, ... most often, we go to bed.
And sometimes, our Muse then just plops the solution into our brains leaving us with a feeling of "where the heck did -that- come from ...?"
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"Ya t'ink you gots problems ... ?"
On November 5th, USA voters (that's terrifying all by itself...) will "determine the fate of 'Free' World ..."
And, I'm in a State that has not the Electoral College 'clout' to affect anything ...
With luck, I won't spend that evening being heart-sick.
Or dangerously drunk ...
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Hang in there, read, enjoy, comment, see what I said over at floop-book.
Don't make my Muse come and have a ... chat ... with your Muse.
My Muse once turned me into a Janitor at Chicago's Lyric Opera, and my Mom and I did a whole skit, real time, of Mom interviewing the Janitor (me.)
Scary Lady, that Muse of mine ...