When the muse doesn't come, sing

Posted at 18:33:00 on Wed, October 18th 2006 by graham
in: editing novel writing

The muse is, rather ironically, ignoring me tonight. Not in the sense that I'm suffering from what I've rather tediously referred to in the past as writer's block; more accurately in the sense that I can't seem to find any real desire to work on the Muse manuscript this evening.

It's probably because I got little sleep last night. Sarah, bless her, is suffering from a nail bed infection (this is not, I should note, an infection gained from sleeping on a bed of nails), and as such struggled to find a position in which she was able to fall asleep. A trip to the doctor, resulting in a lanced nail bed, a course of antibiotics and a recommendation to take a cocktail of codeine and diclofenac sodium before bedtime should hopefully help with that tonight. For myself, lots of peppermint tea is probably the key.

I did think about finishing off a story that I started in Nero yesterday lunch time about a woman who wins someone's soul in a charity raffle, but I honestly don't think I could concentrate on it. Tonight, I think, is a night for music. I'm off to find a guitar.

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Graham Binns is a writer, photographer, musician and software developer from Lancaster, England, with far too much hair, a penchant for odd t-shirts and a magnificent hat. He has been making things up for as long as he can remember and has been making code work for long enough to make a living from it.

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