HRR has a fun relationship with her pipe-smoking muse. Enjoy!
“Pah! You’ve never had such adventure. How do you expect to write about space warriors or musketmen if you’ve never been one?” He leans over a bit and lights a pipe, but as he puffs the smoke has no scent. He’s not exactly real. He’s a figment, a muse.
Or so he’s led me to believe. Otherwise this smoke crap’s going to make me sick one day.
I type with nimble fingers despite his prodding. “If you’re such a stone-cold killer, why don’t you tell me how to write this? Get through this battle scene so I can go on with the politics I’m better at?”
“I will! I am your muse, after all. I’m also better at politics than you, so you can rely on me to help with that.” He clears his throat, straightens his bow tie, and puffs on his pipe. “Now, let me point you to…
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I liked H.’s muse. The description reminded me of Sherlock Holmes.
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Ha! I think so too. I’ve read some of HRR’s stories so I went straight to Andrew Jackson, but Holmes fits the bill. I just love all the variety in the responses. 🙂 Thanks for the comment, Robbie. ❤
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Thanks for reblogging! It’s been very fun.
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Thanks, I get a real kick out of responses to the challenge. They’re all so different!
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I seem to have missed something that is happening around here. That’s a pity, but life is like that sometimes! 😀
Though I did write a piece about my Muse not too long ago. His name is Albert. A sandwich eating, coffee drinking, a bit burlesque, pushy, straight out speaking being, that never, ever would put a tie around his neck. Haven’t seen him for a while, sad to say. Could need a bit of input of Fantasy. 😀
See you around, Diana! ❤
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Your muse sounds like quite a character, Thea. Perhaps you can coax him into a conversation(?). 🙂 The prompt is good for 3 more days.
I haven’t been able to visit you lately because your link isn’t working anymore. Did you change your web address? Your gravatar link is sending me to theabyme.com. If you need help with directions to fix it, just let me know. ❤
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Hi! Diana!
I wrote that very short short story in Swedish, and translating it? I don’t know! Hard to get the same ”feeling”. Perhaps I will, or not!
Oh! Of course! The webadress! I still have the same blog, but estimated I for the time being couldn’t afford the update for theabyme.com, so it’s back to the free version theabyme.wordpress.com. WP is still saying the cart is awaiting payment despite the fact I have deleted it properly.
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I think you only need to update your link in your gravatar, Thea. Then we can all click over and say hi! Here a post about how to do that (it should solve the problem): https://mythsofthemirror.com/2019/04/06/7-steps-to-a-user-friendly-blog/
In the meantime, I’ll use the link you gave me to come over and see what you’ve been up to. ❤
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Thank you, Diana! I didn’t even think of the gravatar. Will do that!
And I haven’t been up to particularly much lately. 🤔😄
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There was no tiny link at the top of that pages, but your help made me find the right way to where to change the gravatar. So thank you! I hope it will function now.
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Oh. Still not working, my friend. You might try make sure all your URL’s have been updated (per those instructions). You didn’t see the little circle at the upper right hand corner of your website? It’s right next to the notification “bell.”
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It doesn´t?!?!?! Oh no…
I’ll try again.
By the way! Is it possible to reach my blog if you write the address directly into the web reader? http://www.theabyme.wordpress.com
Let’s hope it’s only my laptop that is weird. But it’s not the webreaders only that behave oddly, so I don’t think that’s the case. I mean, that my problems makes it difficult to reach the blog.
I’ll have a look at it on the iPad as well.
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I updated the Gravatar earlier, changed the image to make sure to myself that a change was made, and now I found one more place where the webaddress was wrong. The .wordpress. was missing.
I can’t thank you enough to have made me aware of this problem and help me solving it. I sure do hope everything is all right now. ❤ ❤ ❤
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It works now! Yay. I’m glad I could help. 😀
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Thank goodness!!!! 😀
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HRR’s muse is so enthusiastic to do the work. They’ll get the job done in no time!
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Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have such an enthusiastic and helpful muse. This one cracked me up. I can see HRR and her muse arguing about who gets to actually do the writing. Thanks for the visit, Miriam. I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. ❤
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She is lucky. Her muse did a lot of writing. HRR must check on him to see what he is doing. 😃💖
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Ha ha. As long as he doesn’t delete anything!
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HRR is wise to tug them away. He might have forgotten about them! 😄
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Lol – he tries, and he has great ideas, but editing his spelling and grammar is almost as hard as writing it from scratch!
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Lol. So funny.
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Oh, do you use https://www.grammarly.com ? I just copy and paste the text for a quick check. You can use the suggestion or ignore. 😃
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LOL. So funny to think of our muses using Grammarly, Miriam. Mine don’t even know how to use a cell phone. 😀
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Oh, I know, Diana. I was the in house dictionary and directory before technology, haha. I now can’t remember my bank account number. 😃😔
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Oh, I’m fine (I think?) with spelling and grammar. I just think he’s terrible at it.
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Thanks for reblogging, Diana. This is a nice introduction to HR. Hugs to you both.
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You’re welcome, Teagan. HRR is a wonderful writer and I knew she’s have an interesting muse. Thanks so much for stopping by to read, my friend. Take care and Happy Thanksgiving. 🙂
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Thanks for reading! This muse is similar to one of my characters, and I think he’s just the kind of guy to inform me how I need. 🙂
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This is such a fun prompt! It makes me wonder what my muse looks like.
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It’s been a lot of fun, Basilike. We have dapper old men, dramatic divas, even a monster (coming up). Just open the door and see who’s there. If you’re included, I love to have you play along. Thanks for the visit and take care. ❤
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I also enjoyed Almost Iowa’s muse, Jessica’s search, and the twin muses of another lovely lady. I am not sure I ll have time to participate, but still it’s food for thought.
Take care too ❤️
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Thanks, Basilike. Enjoy your creativity wherever it takes you. ❤
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This is a fun series, Diana
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Thanks, Jacqui. A busy one! I’m going to take tomorrow off and then start up again on Friday. I love the creativity. Happy Thanksgiving, my friend. ❤
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We certainly have an eclectic and eccentric collection of muses!
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The creativity and variety has been great. Yours is up next, but I’m going to wait until Friday morning. I’m on parent-duty today and plan a tech free day tomorrow. Happy Thanksgiving, my friend. ❤
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Thanks Diana. Enjoy your break and family. Happy Thanksgiving. 💌
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Hello Diana. I’ve had a go at the Muse subject and posted it a minute ago. Here’s the link. I hope it works – I’ve had trouble providing links before.
https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/105478563/posts/3042189191
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You did just fine, Elizabeth. I’m so glad you played along. I’m heading over to read!
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