Showing posts with label writer's block. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writer's block. Show all posts

Monday, October 8, 2007

The Novelist: Finding Your Muse


O Muses, O high genius, aid me now!
O memory that engraved the things I saw,
Here shall your worth be manifest to all!
—Dante Alighieri, Canto II of the Inferno


As a published author of novels and short stories I often get asked how and where I draw my inspiration from. How do I find my muse? And how do I keep it? (i.e.,, how do I defeat “writer’s block”?).