This reminds me of Stephen King's description of his muse (who is not a live human being) as the guy in the basement with the fairydust (or something close to that - it's from On Writing).
So I have to ask whether you mean someone who inspires you to write/produce art of any sort (i.e. a friend who gives prompts that spark your interest) or someone who inspires you to write/produce art about them (i.e. Chris Evans' physique).
If you mean the first, then I have lots of muses, but I usually have one person at a time in a fandom whose brain just works like mine and sparks lots of writing ideas. I love those fandom friends, they're the best.
The other... I don't have that much. I like characters individually, but mostly it's their relationships with other characters that captures me, so I don't really dwell on individuals so much as how they think about other people. I guess that means I have a gang of muses, usually? But when I'm in a fandom, I flip from character to character, I don't tend to stick with one religiously (though I usually have a few favorites I prefer to write). I know that other people use pics of their favorite characters to get in the mood, or music, sometimes, but that's not my way.
Hope you get lots of answers to this - it's a fascinating subject!
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Date: 2014-04-24 01:17 am (UTC)This reminds me of Stephen King's description of his muse (who is not a live human being) as the guy in the basement with the fairydust (or something close to that - it's from On Writing).
So I have to ask whether you mean someone who inspires you to write/produce art of any sort (i.e. a friend who gives prompts that spark your interest) or someone who inspires you to write/produce art about them (i.e. Chris Evans' physique).
If you mean the first, then I have lots of muses, but I usually have one person at a time in a fandom whose brain just works like mine and sparks lots of writing ideas. I love those fandom friends, they're the best.
The other... I don't have that much. I like characters individually, but mostly it's their relationships with other characters that captures me, so I don't really dwell on individuals so much as how they think about other people. I guess that means I have a gang of muses, usually? But when I'm in a fandom, I flip from character to character, I don't tend to stick with one religiously (though I usually have a few favorites I prefer to write). I know that other people use pics of their favorite characters to get in the mood, or music, sometimes, but that's not my way.
Hope you get lots of answers to this - it's a fascinating subject!