by Suzanne Hartmann Writers get their ideas many ways. In the case of my first novel, PERIL: A Fast Track Thriller, boredom motivated me to create stories to entertain myself while I sat through my kids’ violin and piano lessons and baseball and soccer practice. Over a couple of years, what started with a simple…
Tired of staring at a blank wall above your computer? Maybe an Inspiration Board will provide, well, inspiration to your muse! 1. Make it large enough. My Inspiration Board is 36″ wide and 48″ high, leaving plenty of room for anything and everything I might want to pin to it. Some are items I need…
Many years ago, I began working on the stories for the Seasons of the Tallgrass, a contemporary romance series published by Zondervan. In writing this series, I’ve found that I’m most inspired when I travel deep into the heart of my story setting – the Kansas Flint Hills. On one of my many road trips…
Every once in a while I invite a fellow writer to share what it’s like, writing with his or her muse. Today’s guest poster is Gail Sattler, whose most recent release, The Narrow Path, is now available as I mentioned in the previous post. With no further ado, heeeeeeere’s Gail! Writing with My Muse When…
The noun MUSE is characterized at dictionary.reference.com as the power regarded as inspiring a poet, artist, or thinker. The power that inspires me as a writer is the Holy Spirit. My prayer life plays a huge part in my life as a writer, and I always give God credit for inspiring the really killer ideas…
Muse…or Lose? Do you have a muse? What is one? I always think of that movie, The Muse, with Albert Brooks as a screenwriter who gets a muse in the shape of Sharon Stone. Could I have mine in the shape of Gerard Butler? Anyway, basically a ‘muse’ came from the Greek god Zeus and…