{"id":2655,"date":"2011-11-07T14:04:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T21:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:49:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:49:56","slug":"my-muse-is-a-submissive-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2655","title":{"rendered":"My Muse is a Submissive Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not very Submissive but if I had to choose a pix for my muse... \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/div>\n

Some authors neglect their Muse and some spend hours trying to entice their elusive Muse while others have a dominant, demanding Muse using them only as a conduit to the typing keys!\u00a0\u00a0 My Muse and I have more of a Sub\/Dom relationship.\u00a0 With my Muse being the Sub, patiently waiting for me to have time to give her attention and eager to please when I turn my eye to her.<\/p>\n

I recently spent 4 days in Miami at a conference.\u00a0 Since it was a long, early flight out I brought a book and that pretty much became my entertainment.\u00a0 No desire to write when I’m enmeshed in another’s creation.\u00a0 Although if I write after, sometimes my style is influenced by it.\u00a0 Its really fun to read an Anita Baker book then a Stephanie Plum and watch the dark jostle with the silly camp when I try to write after!<\/p>\n

Sadly I don’t even have time for THAT anymore.\u00a0 So when the boy toy I was hoping would join me in Miami (my Hottie… see previous posts hehehe) had to cancel due to work I decided I’d try to use the time to write.\u00a0 (I’ve tried before at a long conference to try and find a desirable male to play with AT the city I’m visiting but its darn difficult and makes me feel a little unsafe.\u00a0 So I try to bring my own if possible.)<\/p>\n

And this conference is perfect for it.\u00a0 They really only have Exhibits open during the breaks and that ends up being basically 3 hours a day, tops.\u00a0 The rest of the time I lounged by the pool or hung in my room and did data entry.\u00a0 But the few times I went down to eat instead of just ordering room service, I chose to try to finish the pre-plotting on the Slut book (which may end up being a series.\u00a0 It has that possibility as I flesh it out).<\/p>\n

I’ve been doing this little technique of pre-plotting when I go on lunch date meets and they no show me!\u00a0 Coffee meet no-shows I can just leave.. but if I’m there for lunch, I’m seated and I might as well order.\u00a0 So I use the time to work on laying out the plot of a book.\u00a0 Got the first book of the multi-verse done that way.\u00a0 And half of the Slut book.\u00a0\u00a0 Which I finished in Miami.\u00a0 Working on laying out the World Stats for the Slut book and then it’ll be ready for me to dive in and write.<\/p>\n

Because when I DO start writing… I tend to get consumed by it.\u00a0 When I wrote Cat it was all I did in my free time.\u00a0 I took a lunch break at work and wrote and wrote.\u00a0 I’d get home and after dinner I’d write and write and write.\u00a0 I’d put myself to sleep\u00a0 imagining the next days dialogue & scene.\u00a0 I’d do the same while driving and working and helping kids with homework and doing dinner.\u00a0 Which was why I finished Cat in only 6 months, including several edits.\u00a0 (I still miss Bryce)<\/p>\n

So I did more of the plotting while in Miami.\u00a0 And one morning in Miami I woke up from a very interesting dream.\u00a0 Now most of my story ideas come from dreams.\u00a0 Fascinating and detailed dreams.\u00a0 And when I wake up and remember them I often analyze them for book potential.\u00a0 Which I did for this Miami dream.<\/p>\n

And I realized, in THIS dream, the clearest part of it was me realizing this was interesting and going somewhere to pre-plot it!<\/p>\n

You know your Muse is trying to please when she’s guilt-tripping<\/del>\u00a0 enabling<\/del>\u00a0 supporting ANY form of writing you do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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