Inside The Writing Life: The 3 C’s & Contrary Muses — But Hold On…
Well, there I was, all set to put together another “3 C’s” post on the reference to “contrary, if not downright cantankerous muses” in my WALL #4 update post of January 6 — when I realized that effectively it was already written and posted on October 25 last year, as:
Inside the Writing Life: Wrangling The Road Blocks
It’s not just about contrary muses, but it’s certainly a major part of the post. As you can see from the following, there’s a smidgeon of “Characters Behaving Badly” in the mix as well:
“…The writing process gets even trickier when the characters, the narrative, or the Muses are not playing ball. As mentioned in the Puzzles post, sometimes the roadblocks are simply a case of the author not seeing the writing forest for the individual trees…
The post goes on to discuss some of the circumstances under which the muses may appear to throw a spanner into the writing process, including:
- Avoiding “by-the-numbers” storytelling or “cardboard cutout” characters
- Not crossing the same storytelling stream twice
- Maintaining authenticity
Surface appearances may deceive, though, and what may first appear to be a spanner-in-the-works most often turns out to be beneficial. So if you’re interested to find out more, please do read the full post. 🙂