What would you define "muse" as? If you mean in the sense of my having little sprites physically flitting above my head, then no. But if you mean in the more abstract term - a source of inspiration that seems to come from elsewhere - then yes.
I'm very much at the mercy of a "muse," or outside source of inspiration, when it comes to fancreatives - hell, any creatives. There are times when I'm constantly turning out things, sometimes at a rate of multiple collages or such a day, and there are times - days, weeks, months sometimes - where I cannot do anything. These streaks are very often motivated by some outside thing - i.e., I'm in one right now (though not fannishly; my SV muse is quite gone) that was very much brought on by Rob Thomas' new CD, so in that case I suppose my muse looks a lot like Rob - but it's a mental thing; I don't *actually* get little people dancing around my head. If anything I'm rather fascinated by this; are there people who refer to muses and genuinely mean they're "visited" by something? I'll admit it'd never occured to me that anyone referencing a "muse" was thinking in that manner.
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I'm very much at the mercy of a "muse," or outside source of inspiration, when it comes to fancreatives - hell, any creatives. There are times when I'm constantly turning out things, sometimes at a rate of multiple collages or such a day, and there are times - days, weeks, months sometimes - where I cannot do anything. These streaks are very often motivated by some outside thing - i.e., I'm in one right now (though not fannishly; my SV muse is quite gone) that was very much brought on by Rob Thomas' new CD, so in that case I suppose my muse looks a lot like Rob - but it's a mental thing; I don't *actually* get little people dancing around my head. If anything I'm rather fascinated by this; are there people who refer to muses and genuinely mean they're "visited" by something? I'll admit it'd never occured to me that anyone referencing a "muse" was thinking in that manner.
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