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My muse is dried up and I feel soul weary. I want to write, I need to write … I have to write. But I don’t know what to write. So what is the remedy? Do I force myself to stare at a blank computer screen/piece of paper until inspiration strikes? Do I chalk off my dreams as silly whims? Do I give myself a break and identify that what I’m going through is a season and all seasons eventually change? Each of us processes setbacks differently. Reading, for me, is a perfect escape from reality. I think I’m going to read until I can’t read anymore—or until my muse is unstopped and I can fill up that one void only writing can satisfy. And just like anything else I’m going through—whether an emotional, mental or physical challenge—I need to remember to be gentle with myself. It could be that my soul is simply preparing for a much-needed breakthrough.
How do you recover from setbacks?
Always The Write Time Blog 
May 14, 2014 @ 18:01:46
I find writing much more soulful when writing in a bound journal than on my laptop. I start all my ‘real’ (as opposed to technical, for work) writing that way.
Also before doing ‘real’ writing, I almost always (since reading Doreen Virtue’s book about archangels and ascended masters) invoke Archangel Gabriel and ask for her inspiration and help. No doubt some people would find that woo-woo in the extreme, but I think it really works 🙂
Bottom line, the Universe is a huge expanding wave of creativity … you just need a way, any way, of hooking yourself in to that greater flow, so that your creating can be effortless 🙂
May 16, 2014 @ 22:38:46
PS Thinking about this inspired me to make a SoulCollage card about being one with the Flow–hope you like it 🙂 http://aboutwhatmatters.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/how-to-go-with-the-flow/