{"id":64,"date":"2014-06-17T22:42:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T14:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karrenrenzsena.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2014-06-17T22:42:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T14:42:45","slug":"chasingmuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karrenrenzsena.com\/lab\/2014\/06\/17\/chasingmuses\/","title":{"rendered":"On Chasing Muses"},"content":{"rendered":"

I chose that title, if for no other reason than, ‘It sounds badass’.<\/p>\n

Right now this post doesn’t mean crap, but someday, I’ll go back to this place and moment, and bop myself in the head for ever feeling like I can’t write another word to my novel.<\/p>\n

I mean, SRSLY.<\/p>\n

\"Mommy<\/a><\/p>\n

Even that monkey commiserates (BIG WORD).<\/p>\n

When I was younger, I used to believe that the reason why I couldn’t write was because my Muse left me, or something as equally asinine as that. But then I grew up, and I committed myself to this book called\u00a0Champions.\u00a0<\/em>And then I realized that writing has very little to do with Muses and inspiration, and lots to do with discipline and commitment.<\/p>\n

Carlos Luiz Zafon, author of Angel’s Game<\/em> and Shadow in the Wind<\/em> once said, “Inspiration comes when you stick your elbows on the table, your bottom on the chair, and you start sweating. Choose a theme, an idea, and squeeze your brain until it hurts.\u00a0That’s inspiration<\/em>.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

None of those fleeting faeries and flights of fancy.<\/p>\n

You just sit down and write.<\/p>\n

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