The Muse will come soon.

[Astro Pen]

The muse will come soon, she will know what to do.
She is in fact a very productive muse. I seldom wake without her whispering a plot development or story in my ear that I can run with.
But the world/ future is in such turmoil that anything based in contemporary reality, even the power balance of the world, is probably going to need massive correction if it is not to look ridiculously dated in a few years.
How are most of you writers, (this is less for the fantasy writers and more for sci-fi / thriller people), dealing with the instability where a journey futureward that was once on rails is now more of a 4x4 across the desert in terms of directional certainties?

 

[.matthew.]

The world will return to pretty much exactly what it was, no lessons learnt.

You can already see that when people basically riot outside a Five Guys because the burger pickups weren't on schedule

 

[Astro Pen]

The world will return to pretty much exactly what it was, no lessons learnt.
You can already see that when people basically riot outside a Five Guys because the burger pickups weren't on schedule

I love the smell of optimism in the morning.

 

[Don]

My muse, who helps me write reviews (but not stories), is fully present for the time being. She takes away my creative energy when she departs. At that point I can either wait for her return or try to force it. The latter option sometimes irritates her enough to return.

 

[Steve Harrison]

My muse is on extended leave, mainly because working from home means I have even less time for writing. And I doubt my muse could compete with reality at the moment.

I'm not sure everything will go back to normal, as too many democratically elected governments have had an intoxicating taste of authoritarianism. We're at a very interesting crossroad in history.

 

[-K2-]

Bluntly, my primary project which began (2018) as a worst case--far reaching--dystopian fiction, using the political climate as a foundation, is unbelievably starting to read more like prophecy by the day. So, the current situation has been a boon to what I'm doing...but...if I don't hurry up and get it done, it might read like bitter history.

K2

 

[ginny]

Ha my journey has always been the 4x4 across the desert of infinite uncertainty.
I left my muse at the gas-station because she couldn't keep up.(Has nasty dust allergies too.)

 

[sknox]

I've got a restraining order on the Muse. She's fickle, disruptive, utterly unreliable. I kicked her out of the house years ago. Now I just write, slow and steady, whether or not I'm inspired, and am much happier. Well, as happy as a writer gets, anyway.

 

[The Big Peat]

The sense of potentially running out of time has given me a renewed sense of urgency.

 

[-K2-]

Bluntly, my primary project which began (2018) as a worst case--far reaching--dystopian fiction, using the political climate as a foundation, is unbelievably starting to read more like prophecy by the day. So, the current situation has been a boon to what I'm doing...but...if I don't hurry up and get it done, it might read like bitter history.

Muse schmuse... Call me Nostradamus.

K2

 

[Night_Eternal]

I personally don't believe in writers block. I just say "the Muse is sleeping" and go to do other things. She always wakes up later, sometimes when I least expect it, and we get to work.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

The way I always do. A chapter a day and no beating myself up if I’m too busy.