{"id":40029,"date":"2022-02-24T06:30:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T17:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=40029"},"modified":"2022-02-21T10:09:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T21:09:11","slug":"inside-the-writing-life-the-3-cs-contrary-muses-but-hold-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2022\/02\/24\/inside-the-writing-life-the-3-cs-contrary-muses-but-hold-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside The Writing Life: The 3 C’s & Contrary Muses — But Hold On…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a> — when I realized that effectively it was already written and posted on October 25 last year, as:<\/p>\n

Inside the Writing Life: Wrangling The Road Blocks<\/a><\/h3>\n

It’s not just<\/em> 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<\/a>” in the mix as well:<\/p>\n

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Apollo and the Muses pentyptych, by Charles Meynier, Cleveland Museum of Art<\/p><\/div>\n

“…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…<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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The muses, Euterpe & Melpomene: (c) National Trust, Attingham Park; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation<\/p><\/div>\n

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:<\/p>\n