{"id":1049,"date":"2012-06-12T14:12:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T21:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2012-06-12T14:12:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T21:12:49","slug":"muses-cycles-emotions-and-staycations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/muses-cycles-emotions-and-staycations","title":{"rendered":"Muses, Cycles, Emotions, and Staycations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I woke up with this post in my head and I’m learning to just “go with it.”<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

Over the years I’ve seen that I work in cycles of various lengths.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jobs? Two years max!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Daily exercise at a club? About 1.5 years!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Regular worship attendance?  Very varied so I guess it is never what you could call “regular.”  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But writing? That’s one with a cycle I cannot yet figure out and now I am no longer trying to figure it out.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I just finished up an e-book about the 10 Commandments<\/a> [a political snarky take on same] and I thought “wow! I’m on a roll with writing – let me finish up another of the ones I’ve started.”  [There are more than a few.]
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Bad idea. I could not put words to computer at all or even work at videos, etc. – instead I sniped at anyone who talked to me. I was in a very foul mood and still I tried to write.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Then I basically said, “screw this” and decided to give up on writing about anything.  It felt like a big defeat.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I took a staycation. I played computer games, read a whole lot of books, spent time on web browsers – mostly feeling like my own words had left my head forever.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But aha!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

After 2 weeks, the muse came back. I am writing this, getting back to videos, and I working on material for a class I teach.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But that muse won’t touch e-books right now!  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lesson learned? My muse did not desert me. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n