Muse in the Morning

If there’s one good thing about being an insomniac, it’s that my muse has more time to give me ideas than she should. Well, maybe that’s not such a good thing all the time. This book lady likes to sleep! But it does work out when she brings her A game at 2 am. Which she has been a lot of the time lately. I’ve gotten insight for half baked ideas I’ve had rattling around my dusty brain box for years, direction for stories I’m currently excavating out of my own imagination, and shiny new ideas I can’t wait to work on! Muse has introduced me to characters and worlds I’ve never encountered before and details of stories I’ve been working on forever. You know what they say, the muse works in weird ways. And I guess one of those weird ways is waking you up in the middle of the night with vivid images of a world you’ve never visited before. I’m exhausted, but let’s just say my pen got all of its steps in, and I’m not mad about it.

Okay, okay, I’ll tell you about it. It all started with a single question: what if I lived in a clock? Well, that’s a lie. It wasn’t just this one question that got the old idea train running. It was also: what would this world look like, what would it feel like, who would live in such a world, and why? And there my idea train went, full of fuel and spitting smoke. (I think my idea train is a steam engine!) So, call me crazy, but I spent the early hours of the morning looking up names, writing a blurb, and coming up with a basic premise for this world I saw so clearly in my mind. I’m talking, gears, dust, and revenge. And I don’t have to tell you

magic was thrown in the mix too. I don’t want to tell you too much—which I may have already—so I’ll end with my proposed title: The Timepiece Tales.

Leave me a comment telling me what kind of idea train you have!