The Muse & the Marketplace 2017

We’ve all known those times when the well of words runs dry and our minds feel as arid as the blank page before us; times when it seems only the Muse can help. But what we writers call the Muse, said Ray Bradbury, is simply 'the creative aspect' of what others call the subconscious.

In this session, we will bypass deliberate thought and explore other ways of tapping into our latent knowledge and creativity. We will plumb the subconscious, relying on intuition to reach for
that which we know but weren’t thinking of, and practice courting the Muse through lists, mind-maps, word clusters, and metaphors.