My muse is my subconscious, basically. Very few of my plots have ever come from rational thought; I wake up from sleep and they're there, demanding I write them. If I'm stuck on a plot point or a section of dialogue, racking my brain over it almost never solves it. I just leave it on idle and at some point over the next few days or weeks I'll wake up and I'll have it. Usually at 5am, and then I have to get up and write it down before I can go back to sleep!
It's a blessing, in that there's no deliberate effort involved, and a curse in that I can't easily make myself sit down and write. I have to wait for it to happen, which is why I turn out on average a fic every 3 months. And not very long fics at that ::sigh::. I'd give a great deal to be able to write faster, but when I do try to work with this stuff consciously I'm lucky to get 500 decent words out of a day.
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It's a blessing, in that there's no deliberate effort involved, and a curse in that I can't easily make myself sit down and write. I have to wait for it to happen, which is why I turn out on average a fic every 3 months. And not very long fics at that ::sigh::. I'd give a great deal to be able to write faster, but when I do try to work with this stuff consciously I'm lucky to get 500 decent words out of a day.