Brigit's Flame, February, week #4

[keppiehed]

Title: Finding the Muse
Author: Keppiehed
Ratings: G
Warnings: none
Word Count: 1191
Prompt: “It's Okay”
A/N: Written for week #4 at Brigits_flame. This concludes my monthlong love affair with the muse. I tried for different styles every week, and I am afraid that this one is a bit pretentious, but I wanted to play around with perspective in a new way. So forgive the

Comments

[bardiphouka]

I think it was a lovely introduction of a writer to their real muse. Not,according to Mr Joyce,that a writer cannot have an outside muse. But then was the last time anyone actually READ James Joyce? Wonderfully done.

[keppiehed]

Don't let the first person at the end fool you; this is fiction, every word. Rare is the autobiographical entry from me! I heartily ascribe to the idea of muse. Although I often joke that mine comes dressed directly from the set of Clash of the Titans, I hesitate to disclose exactly what (who?) inspires me for fear of being laughed right out of the community. But I have my own muse, yes. I'm not sure it was evident in this entry? But I do thank you for your praise. :)

[bardiphouka]

an owl?

[keppiehed]

*laughs* muses aren't to be confused with totems! :D

[belluminabyssus]

Ooh, I love the last lines of this piece. It's a great conclusion to this "cycle" (for lack of a better word) that you've had going on this month. I'm a little confused at the POV change at the end (we go from you to I, and her to you ... so I don't really know what happened there. I think I sort of understand that the "you" refers to the muse and the "I" refers to you, the writer, but it seems to be in second, not first person, for the whole story up until the last paragraph or so.

Otherwise, really nice job ... I hope your muse has come back to stay! :)

[keppiehed]

The perspective change was confusing, I admit. I wasn't sure how to handle it and I think it ended up a distracting tactic rather than anything valuable. Perhaps I should have kept the uniformity throughout. I played around with several different ways, and none of it seemed right, so I just left it the way it was, because I was getting to the point where it was feeling "overwritten" to me, and I couldn't tell one thing from the next. You know that feeling? Like when you repeat a word and then it loses meaning? So I was afraid that it was just a horrific mess. You know how I am about week 4, after all! But you always cheer me up in the best of ways, so no matter how the vote goes I feel like I can't lose if I know you liked it. Thank you!

[keppiehed]

Oh, I'm so glad to hear that you enjoyed!I seem to have lost any and all ability to self-edit, and this felt like the worst mess. I was so afraid to post it! It is really heartening to know that you thought there was something redeeming about it!

About the double quotation: it looks awkward to punctuate that way, but I have several sources that confirm that the punctuation goes inside both sets, even as weird as it looks. The best article on it is Pip's, in the literary library, article IV of "Punctuation With Quotation Marks". I would trust Pip on anything editing! Thank you for keeping an eye out for me; I always appreciate feedback. I know I have some errors in here I should check out.

[hbart]

I like the idea of muses sitting around comparing notes. Didn't one of your previous entries question whether that happened? A nice realization at the end.

[keppiehed]

It did, yes! This was all weird with perspective, but I liked the idea of doing something different and coming around full circle for February. Now, hopefully, I can move on!