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\"Ready<\/a>Creative writing is an act of faith. It is, of course, also a process and work and I will be taking my own advice<\/a> in those regards but none of that can happen without the trust that inspiration will come. Do you believe in your muse? Do you have a creative faith that you can form something with your mind or hands that didn’t exist yesterday?<\/p>\n

Turning up ready to be inspired, making the time and the space for it to happen, listening closely for those soft but magical words “what if…” those are all the ways that stories begin to edge their way into the world. By the time I’m inside that story, I don’t feel that I’m creating it but rather that I’m digging up something my muse buried for me.<\/p>\n

That’s when it is going well. It doesn’t always go well.<\/p>\n

Last week I was so sick that I didn’t feel like writing. Actually it was worse than that. I wanted to and couldn’t. I wanted to draw some meaning from being ill, to find some message we could all tuck into our hearts and feel positive about. There was nothing. It wasn’t ‘writer’s block’ so much as ‘writer is empty’. Obviously, if one is not writing, one is not a writer.\u00a0It is with great anticipation then\u00a0that I look forward to the culmination of my course of antibiotics and of October with the deeply held hope that November will fill me up again to overflowing with words.<\/p>\n

November is the annual National Write a Novel Month<\/a> (Nanowrimo for short) and you’ve heard me be a fangirl <\/a>about it before. It is a challenge that gives some extra purpose and pleasure to my life, even though it has never yet resulted in a published story (although for hundreds of participants each year it does exactly that). Every year I try and dig up some tasty fiction. It is a choice I make knowing that I might fail (and knowing that I will feel like a failure anyway), that I will have to give up other things in order to do it, and that ultimately it doesn’t matter. \u00a0I do it because I love it. It makes me happy to try.<\/p>\n

It is uncomfortable <\/a>to admit that I don’t know what might come (or not come). I have my ideas and themes, my egoic attachment to\u00a0producing a single, 50 000 word chunk of fiction during November. I have faith that something will come along. I am here in my chair at the keyboard typing that prayer out to you right now.<\/p>\n

Hear me Muse!\u00a0Lead me to a buried treasure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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