This is my advice:
Think of yourself as a worker.
Show up at the job.
–novelist, memoirist, essayist, and craft book writer Sandra Scofield
Still working through Scofield’s The Scene Book to help me revise my WIP, a behemoth historical novel manuscript.
And work is just what it is. Okay, some days are better than others–the synapses firing at a clip. Sometimes it feels like crafting; once in a while it even feels like making art.
For me, mindset matters. Work demands discipline; I’m responsible to it. No one calls in late for work with excuses like, the muse didn’t speak to me or the mood wasn’t right.
Later today, much of the U.S. will watch two teams of men go to work. We call it play, but my guess is they don’t.
Tomorrow, muse or not, mood or not, it’s back to work…
Rust Belt Girl 
Ha! As a Pats fan, I can definitely attest that they consider what they do work! But this is so true, waiting for the stars to align and the right time/mood/situation is futile. You have to push your own work forward!
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Wow, thank you, Riya. You’re so kind to think of me!
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Sage advice. I always laugh when I hear things like “I have to find my muse”, or ” my characters just aren’t cooperating”. It’s work. You sit down and hammer it out. And if it’s still not good enough you come back tomorrow and re-write.
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Amen. “My characters aren’t cooperating”–love that one!
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