The Muses dancing with Apollo, by Baldassare P... 

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You know the signs. You pick up a new book and find a clever plot idea.  You think that you should have thought of the idea. Or maybe you did have that idea, but you didn’t write the book.

Your muse has run away from home and gone to work for someone else. She’ll do that if she doesn’t feel nurtured. I suspect my muse moonlights for Nora Roberts, or sometimes for Julie Kenner. The slut isn’t picky. She’ll work for anyone who treats her right.

How can you nurture your muse and keep her from roaming?

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