Museless

Writing is a way of expressing myself.  When words do not suffice, very often I turn to pen and paper (or keys) to write of my feelings.  Thoughts somehow seem to flow more smoothly when they're coming from my fingertips instead of my mouth.  Besides, I love writing.  Particularly writings of my own creation.  But to me, they are not purely my own creation.  The story is merely there, all I need to do is record what I see unfolding.  I love losing myself deep within the world I create, meeting the characters and getting to know them.  Some people "create" their characters.  I say that I "discover" them.  My characters are already there, I merely have to find them.  It is quite an exciting process, but a long and sometimes arduous one.  For that reason, I look forward to and also dread the time when I need to create a new character.

Currently, I am in the process of redoing a story that I wrote several years ago.  It has a good concept, yet it is simple.  It is written the way an eleven-year-old wrote, uncomplicated and predictable.  The characters have not been fully discovered.  So I have taken up the burden of author yet again.  My goal is to complete the refinished story by next summer.

But right now I am in the lurch.  I am museless.*  My creative genius has vanished.  The story has continued but it has left me behind.  I have been trying to jumpstart my creative thought process by reading several RPGs** that I'm currently involved in in the hopes of becoming inspired again.  Instead of the mighty ROAR of my imagination leaping back to life, it has began coming to life with a slow put-put-put.

I hope my muse comes back.  Now.

*Muse: poetic inspiration (Webster's Online Dictionary)

**RPG: role-playing game---one player writes as one character and another player writes as another character. (Webster's Online Dictionary)