I have a whole slew of muses for my writing. Usually one for each character I write. But in the case of characters that are used in multiple ways [canon vs. AU, for example], there can be multiple versions of the same "character".
The muses will actually speak to me, even hold whole conversations in my head, like I'm watching a movie of the characters/muses. Hell, there have been MANY times where the muses have "taken over", so to speak, and written things that I later had to go back and re-read to know what was written. It's truly fascinating...
shatterpath and I "share" muses, as well. Usually the ones that we work on together in our big AU crossover series, Light, Water, Muses, but sometimes others. We jokingly call it "brainshare" or "brainsharing".
I don't know of many other people that have the multiple muses, as most I talk to have a singe Muse [capitalization intended by those people]. I don't know if that means that shatterpath and I are different in some way or not... Most people don't understand the multiple muses situation. We actually tend to treat them almost as living people, because the stronger ones sometimes feel that way. As shatterpath said, they're every bit as real as you or I, they just exist on a different plane of reality than we do.
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Date: 2009-05-26 04:58 am (UTC)I have a whole slew of muses for my writing. Usually one for each character I write. But in the case of characters that are used in multiple ways [canon vs. AU, for example], there can be multiple versions of the same "character".
The muses will actually speak to me, even hold whole conversations in my head, like I'm watching a movie of the characters/muses. Hell, there have been MANY times where the muses have "taken over", so to speak, and written things that I later had to go back and re-read to know what was written. It's truly fascinating...
I don't know of many other people that have the multiple muses, as most I talk to have a singe Muse [capitalization intended by those people]. I don't know if that means that