Connecting with my muse-Jackie Loveland

Throughout this course, I have always been trying to connect with my muse. Even though it took me a while to figure out what worked the best to help my mind relax and think freely, I finally figured it out. I’ve learned that when I am just about to fall asleep at night, while listening to music, I tend to think about emotions and imagery the most. Once I figured this out, I started to write down some of the things in my mind and some of the things that I was seeing in order to give me a start of a poem or a topic. By having these ideas written down, my mind starts to think of other things that can relate to these things or things that actually go with them. For example once I was listening to the song “All or Nothing” by O-Town, and it remind me of something that happened to me two years ago, and all my feelings from that time just came back to me, so I was able to write a poem that was inspired by those feelings. Besides listening to music, and just thinking, pictures also help me to write poetry. When I look at an image usually some of the first thoughts that go to my head are what does this remind me of, does this remind me of a place that I have been, does this remind me of an object that I own, does this remind me of a certain time in my life and the answers to these questions usually help me to think of something to write about.