Comments on: Motivation for Writers – Fire Up (or Just Fire) the Writing Muse http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/motivation-for-writers-fire-up-or-just-fire-the-writing-muse/ Tips for writers, freelancers, and novelists paired with quips from successful authors, to help you write better! Tue, 15 May 2012 00:28:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kelli Klampe http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/motivation-for-writers-fire-up-or-just-fire-the-writing-muse/comment-page-1/#comment-17066 Kelli Klampe Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:55:24 +0000 http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/?p=2008#comment-17066 I would really like to try google plus..... Something funny for you. A true story My daughter came home with a box of black hair dye, her reason, "I am tired of everyone calling me a dumb blonde" I few minutes later I hear screaming in the kitchen. I walk in to find my daughter yelling, "the directions are in spanish!" As difficult as it was I (without laughing) turn the page over. She looked up and explained she was blonde still.... I would really like to try google plus….. Something funny for you. A true story
My daughter came home with a box of black hair dye, her reason, “I am tired of everyone calling me a dumb blonde” I few minutes later I hear screaming in the kitchen. I walk in to find my daughter yelling, “the directions are in spanish!” As difficult as it was I (without laughing) turn the page over. She looked up and explained she was blonde still….

]]> By: Mind Mapping for Writers – How to Mind Map a Story or Article http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/motivation-for-writers-fire-up-or-just-fire-the-writing-muse/comment-page-1/#comment-5960 Mind Mapping for Writers – How to Mind Map a Story or Article Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:09:58 +0000 http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/?p=2008#comment-5960 [...] a day. Again, the purpose is not to organize, it’s to provoke the aha! experience that increases your motivation to write. If you have an overall concept of what you are writing each time you sit down to write, then that [...] [...] a day. Again, the purpose is not to organize, it’s to provoke the aha! experience that increases your motivation to write. If you have an overall concept of what you are writing each time you sit down to write, then that [...]

]]> By: Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/motivation-for-writers-fire-up-or-just-fire-the-writing-muse/comment-page-1/#comment-4823 Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen Thu, 06 May 2010 15:23:30 +0000 http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/?p=2008#comment-4823 Maggie, Thanks -- I'm glad Fire Up the Muse was so helpful to you! You made my day :-) Laurie .-= Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen´s last blog post ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/QuipsTipsForFreelanceWriters/~3/O4x2-95XiLo/" rel="nofollow">How to Write a Google Adsense Ad to Sell Your eBook</a> =-. Maggie,

Thanks — I’m glad Fire Up the Muse was so helpful to you! You made my day :-)

Laurie
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]]> By: Maggie R http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/motivation-for-writers-fire-up-or-just-fire-the-writing-muse/comment-page-1/#comment-4811 Maggie R Tue, 04 May 2010 16:39:48 +0000 http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/?p=2008#comment-4811 Thank you, thank you, yet again for Fire up (or Just Fire) the Muse! I bombed on a 10-minute timed writing at my writing workshop last night. "Everyone" but me produced imaginative, free-flowing pieces from the prompt "I Remember When." Memory stalled - performance anxiety? writing block? - all I could come up with were two awkward sentences. Still cringing with this evidence of my lack, I then went on to stammer and stumble over simple words as I read out the piece of writing I had brought for critique. This morning my inner critic informed me I should (1) pack up my writing aspirations; (2) never go back to the workshop group; and (3) stay in bed for the day. Not so fast! I reached for my writing life-line Fire up the Muse which covers this very situation! Messages from the Muse replaced the inner critic in my head. You mean others go through this as well? And still carry on writing? I was able to uncurl myself from the foetal position and crawl over to my keyboard where the keys are now chattering away. Maggie Thank you, thank you, yet again for Fire up (or Just Fire) the Muse!

I bombed on a 10-minute timed writing at my writing workshop last night. “Everyone” but me produced imaginative, free-flowing pieces from the prompt “I Remember When.” Memory stalled – performance anxiety? writing block? – all I could come up with were two awkward sentences. Still cringing with this evidence of my lack, I then went on to stammer and stumble over simple words as I read out the piece of writing I had brought for critique.

This morning my inner critic informed me I should (1) pack up my writing aspirations; (2) never go back to the workshop group; and (3) stay in bed for the day. Not so fast! I reached for my writing life-line Fire up the Muse which covers this very situation!

Messages from the Muse replaced the inner critic in my head.

You mean others go through this as well? And still carry on writing? I was able to uncurl myself from the foetal position and crawl over to my keyboard where the keys are now chattering away.

Maggie

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