Muse: Breathe. Focus. Achieve.

By Stacia Kelly

Has your Creative Muse gone to sleep? Sometimes, there are those of us who use all of life’s interruptions as our excuse. I can’t write; I have to do laundry. I have to get the kids to soccer practice; I don’t have time to get that scene down on the page. Eventually, only the faintest flare comes from our Muse. She’s growing quiet, tired of shouting and having you ignore her.
WAKE HER UP!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stacia Kelly
• Release date: Apr 19, 2010
• ISBN: 9780985283728

Stacia Kelly

Stacia D. Kelly, PhD, is a Holistic Health & Nutrition Advisor and the founder of CatKlaw, Inc., a Creative Solutions Company.Stacia’s experience includes health and wellness speaking; health and fitness coaching/mentoring; personal training, stress management, relaxation therapies, sports performance enhancement training, group yoga/fusion instruction, and nutrition.Her passion is paranormal romance & urban fantasy, she is currently working on a Paranormal Romance Series: The Goddess Chronicles and writes under N.S. Kelly with her husband on the Urban Samurai series.

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Muse - breathe. focus. achieve.

Guided Meditations for the Fiction Writer

by Stacia D. Kelly, PhD

SmashWords Edition

Muse – Breathe. Focus. Achieve.

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First published in the United States in 2009 and sold via www.mindbodyspiritworks.com.

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DEDICATED

to my muse because she demanded it, may yours benefit as well

Table of Contents

1 Foreword

2 Acknowledgements

3 Introduction

4 Get Passionate

5 Allowing Yourself Success

6 Weekly Writing Plan

7 Meditations

8 What Next?

9 PS: One More Thing

10 Resources

1 FOREWORD

Even if you’re a die-hard crossword enthusiast and can easily name all nine of the muses, be prepared to meet them face-to-face in Dr. Kelly’s delightful introduction to the creative process.

Here, her own muse has skillfully guided her to a creative blending of rigor and relaxation: rigor to ensure your complete success and relaxation to ensure the rigor. Dr. Kelly draws abundantly from her own experience with meditation and martial arts to richly enhance your own experience with your muse; and does it in a way that will, dare I say it, a-muse.

Creative individuals have long known that their art comes not from themselves but from a Source beyond themselves; they know that when the Source is present they leap up in joy at its calls; when it is absent, they are flung into the dark corners of their life. Ever and anon it has been the desire of the creative ones to learn how to maintain contact with the Creative Presence and an introduction to that regimen is here presented to you. As C.S. Lewis says of Aslan, he is not a tame lion, meaning to indicate that he doesn’t jump when you say jump, your muse cannot be handled; however, you can develop a relationship with your muse, and Dr. Kelly has given you the nuts and bolts with which to do that very thing.

Although her book is decidedly written with an eye to helping the writer, her techniques and suggestions are aimed at your relationship with your muse in whatever artistic endeavor you choose to indulge. In the