Come on and aMUSE me!

Sometimes, we all need to travel into a world of tangential thought. For today, let’s allow that tangential thought go into what (or who) we tend to write about in our work. We often have a source of inspiration or a muse, don’t we? Someone who says a line we work into our writing, or a character whose name has the same initials or rhymes with the name of someone we went to school or work with? Now, think about it for a moment - how many of you have given thought to being one of those muses? Have you ever given someone a manuscript or been asked who inspired the main character in your poem/short story/book and been excited to have someone peel away and expose your inner inspiration? Have you ever wished your muse read your work and put two-and-two together? I’m curious to see what you all mention in response to this post as someone who has never shown my people of inspiration any of my writing just yet, and, who in a moment of tangential thought, pondered if she could have possibly been reproduced in a fictional facsimile too.