My Muse Is…

[TarnishedPenny]

Many of us have mentioned them, but what are yours like to live with?

My muse is 13 going on 87, utterly cynical yet endlessly optimistic that my scribblings will do well. She - and she is so definitely female - is Mensa-bright, opinionated, disorganized and prone to bouts of maudlin self-pity. If my muse was an animal, while she would like to be thought an otter, she would far more likely be a bobcat or coyote. She has dreams of glory, wears an A-cup when she bothers and thinks politics is for the vain and foolish. She experimented with veganism, but gave it up when it was pointed out that that would bar milk chocolate.

How about yours?

 

[EmilyMiller]

My Muse Is…​

Mine is a thirty-something ex-scientist with wholly inappropriate pretensions about being able to write .

TBH, no one is to blame for my scribbles but me .

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Depends. I have several, but if you want to know who's the one keeping me writing, I talked about them in my Substack. They're twin sisters obsessed to kill me with overwhelming pleasure. One won't stop fucking me until I'm dead, and the other is constantly telling me to give up to the method of killing. They're the personification of my Anima, and I used them as characters in an upcoming story. I just don't know if that story belongs to Fetish, E&V, or T/I.

 

[SmilingLez]

My muse
an empathic soul.

She walks
through the world
watching.

She sees
the quiet pain
of a broken heart.

She feels
the loud joy
of a celebration.

She loves
nature,
the colors.

She hears
music
in the wind.

As a poet,
I let her
guide my pen.

 

[anthrodisiac]

Mine's an obsessive freak, but I think we all already knew that.

 

[Erozetta]

Mine's a sadist.

 

[crookedletter]

Mine looks like this:

 

[TheRedChamber]

My muse is all the things I've never gotten to do.

Also Julia Sawalha.

(Who coincidentally...)

 

[ClintonBrooks]

You tell me which brain you think is my muse?

 

[Rob_Royale]

My muse is every beautiful woman who ever made my heart race.

 

[deathlynx]

I'm not sure of a personification of mine. Stories, bits of scenes, even phrases pop into my head and will not relent until I've recorded them somewhere. Sometimes it requires full prose or verse and sometimes just the basic outline is enough to silence it. Those are the stories that drive me to produce.

Then, there's my desire to escape my own mind. So I sit in front of a screen, my hands on the keyboard and I push forward. I utilize the fragments that have been left behind and force my brain along paths that aren't as detrimental as those they would otherwise process.

 

[Duil2]

Honestly I'm not aware of having a muse, per se. Inspiration, coupled with a desire to write, lands, I follow the path my fingers type and, for the most part, a story is created.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

... insane.

 

[BenjaminCarlisle]

Mine are masochist.

They are two of the most beautiful women I have ever know and I have know idea why they chose me. They are the best submissive you could ever imagine having and push me to actually try to care about myself and my writing. I wouldn’t be on here if it wasn’t for both of them.

 

[sirhugs]

mine are a cranky old man and a beautiful 40something blonde. When they aren't arguing, it is sublime.

 

[StillStunned]

My muse has pondering thoughts.

 

[Writer61]

I am sure where my inspiration comes from, but I know where the best of it breaks through, which is in the shower and in bed (alone).

 

[Fatdog25]

... a figurative pain in the ass.

 

[deathlynx]

I am sure where my inspiration comes from, but I know where the best of it breaks through, which is in the shower and in bed (alone).

A lot of mine comes in the car, or on walks, both of which cause me to get where I'm going and need to sketch out things as quickly as possible so I don't forget the details.
I do appreciate these moments, however, as there are worse things for my mind to lock onto when alone with my thoughts.