7.21.2006

The Writerly Muse

An early-morning rumination following a dream of a bookstore:

What is the writerly muse, if not a collection of interests, curiosities, subconscious desires, obsessions, and memories that has become a individualized figure, an entity to be visualized and invoked at will? What does "I have lost my muse" mean but "I have no obsessions"?