Waking your sleeping muse
There’s nothing like a good brainstorming session to shake the cobwebs out and wake up your muse. I know because Dave and I had a lovely IM session today. We tossed some ideas back and forth and managed to jump start our writing. We don’t do this very often. In fact, we only do it when one of us is at wits end and screams for help from the other.
Later today I get together with my critiquing group and will break the news that I’m killing off a character—well, two of them sort of. The one will remain but won’t have the separate chapters I’d put him in they weren’t working either. They are going to kill me.
If your muse has taken a snooze, why not get together with friends and see if they can help you out with a brainstorming session. Offer them free coffee and snacks if they’ll play ‘what if’ with you. Sometimes all it takes is a chance to bounce ideas off someone.
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And don’t confine yourself to brainstorming just with others who write in your genre. Sometimes the best ideas come from ‘outsiders’ unfamiliar with it. They aren’t bound by the conventions that may restrict your thinking.
Most definitely! My friend G has nothing to do with writing and she’s managed to set my mind reeling with ideas many times.