Thoughts on my Muse

As I sit at my desk and try to access my muse or do some sort of creative assignment, I sometimes find it difficult to process my thoughts and put them into coherent statements that flow and click. The majority of the time, I eventually find the words I’m looking for and produce what needs to be done. The problem is I tend to do my most creative and easiest thinking at the most inconvenient times. This has happened often and as I get older, I find it happens more frequently. My best thinking tends to be when I’m in solitary with no technology to distract me such as when I’m driving, which is fine because it helps pass the time but it’s impossible to write these ideas down while driving or they leave my brain before I can stop and write them down. My muse also like to come to me at other inconvenient times such as on the softball bench on my off days or during another class when I’m supposed to be paying attention, but instead my mind wonders into a creative state. The most annoying time my “muse” likes to hit me is right before bed. I’ve heard this common among the human race, but once my mind wonders outside of sleep mode, it takes a while to get back and therefore wrecks havoc on the quantity of sleep I can achieve during the night. I sometimes try to prevent the muse hitting me too hard at night, but I find that to be damaging in the long run. I guess the moral of this blog post is to reflect on my tendencies when writing poetry and remind myself that I cannot force the muse and if I would relax, it would be able to flow much easier.