{"id":455,"date":"2011-08-30T21:54:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T21:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/index.php\/2011\/08\/30\/museholiday\/"},"modified":"2011-08-30T21:54:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T21:54:43","slug":"museholiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/museholiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Has anyone seen my muse?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Xanadu-Olivia-Newton-John-Michael-Beck-2_large\"\u201cI\u2019m a muse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m glad someone thinks this is funny.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo. A MUSE\u2026.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

You know it\u2019s gonna be weird when I paraphrase Xanadu<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since January, I\u2019ve been consulting part time and writing. The last few months have been especially tough. More so, since my own personal muse seems to have gone on extended holiday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Along with book 2 of The Arcana Chronicles<\/i> (I\u2019ve outlined through book five, BTW), I\u2019ve been working on a super-secret SciFi trilogy, and am beginning character development on something that could be a very cool collaboration with writer Emmett Spain.<\/span><\/p>\n

But most of the words coming from my keyboard have been crap.<\/span><\/p>\n

Or online job applications.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"jim-ignatowski-pic\"The interview process has been slow\u2026I have a few great leads and potential opportunities\u2026but I feel like I\u2019m watching that episode of Taxi\u2014you know the one, where Jim Ignatowsky played by the wonderful Christopher Lloyd is taking his drivers test and asks for help on the first question:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat does a yellow light mean?\u201d asks Jim.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSlow down.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOkay. Whaaaat. Doooooes. Aaaaaaa. Yeeeeelloooow. Liiiiight. Meeeeaaan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly what waiting for job follow-up and feedback is like.<\/span><\/p>\n

Something will pop soon. I\u2019m certain of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

This waiting thing is playing havoc with my writing. The stress of not knowing what I\u2019ll be doing is making me a bit crazy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong\u2026I\u2019m lucky in the fact that my partner has a great job and is covering the household bills for the time being. And she is so unbelievably supportive of me in every way. I\u2019m truly blessed.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m one of these weird people who like to work. Would I love to be a writer fulltime? Absolutely. Maybe someday that will be my \u201cday job.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But for now\u2014for right<\/i> now, I want to get back into the game full time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because when I work, I\u2019m happy. And when I\u2019m happy, maybe that fickle bitch I call my muse will come back from holiday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m a muse.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m glad someone thinks this is funny.\u201d \u201cNo. A MUSE\u2026.\u201d You know it\u2019s gonna be weird when I paraphrase Xanadu. Since January, I\u2019ve been consulting part time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c40-myblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}