Comments on: Know When To Fold ‘Em

By: Marcia

Marcia — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:03:15 +0000

I had planned on doing both this year, but the move and helping Leon study, just blew both of them out of the water… My poetry muse is having to be tamed, it could totally get out of control, but the rest just doesn’t feel like cooperating, I didn’t like where my novel was not going… so I found excuses not to bother, but there are 15 days left, grin.

I liked where you post went – since you are not out of the game.

By: Karina

Karina — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:19:12 +0000

I’m having muse issues as well, but mine has to do with NaNoWriMo. I’m not quite throwing in the towel yet, but it could happen sooner rather than later…oh well…when the muse takes a break, or decides it wants to tell stories about your exboyfriends on your blog, instead of a novel, what can you do?

By: archshrk

archshrk — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:19:01 +0000

I was going to give the NaBloPoMo a dry run this year to see if I could handle it. Then I realized, the worst that could happen is I don’t make it. If I didn’t make it, know one was going to attack me so I went ahead and joined. The worst part for us, your readers, is we have less of you to love. But real life is usually more important, anyway.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:55:27 +0000

One of the things about being an only child who moved constantly is that you learn to listen quietly until there is something to say. When visiting here, you have your wonderful stories, but if there is nothing new then that is okay too. It makes the anticipation even better. So listen to that muse. She probably knows what she’s talking about.

By: Jessica The Rock Chick

Jessica The Rock Chick — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:30:07 +0000

I was going to give that NaBloPoMo blog and novel writing thing a shot and then I realized that I just can’t force the creativity. In fact, the pressure of having to do something seems to make me less creative. I decided not to put that kind of pressure on myself espcially since I’m having trouble doing Thursday Thirteens and that’s only once a week! LOL

I think your challenge idea is a great one!

Jessica

By: susiej

susiej — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:11:48 +0000

Shelly, this makes so much sense, and yes we understand what you’re going through. I just wrote about NaBloPoMo running my life yesterday. There’s something about being “told” to do something that makes the muse just run away and hide.

I swear, I didn’t think it would happen to me; but it did; and based on the comments I’ve read on my post, it seems to be happening to all of us.

By: Jeni Hill Ertmer

Jeni Hill Ertmer — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:33:33 +0000

Darned good post! I didn’t try the write a post every day thing because I knew as soon as I did that, the urge to write anything would either fail me or there would be nothing coming forward in my mind! And then there’s the way I frequently run out of time during the 24 hour periods we are given daily and I do HAVE to get some sleep! Otherwise, I’d be doing ALL my reading and commenting at this hour of the day(night) every day(night).