Writing Music

I broke down a bought a Writer's Digest magazine the other day. It has all sorts of ideas on how to jump-start your writing muse. One of them is using music to inspire you! I already knew about that one... I use music all the time... It helps me to shift out of my thoughts and into something else, a more fluid stream of consciousness and thoughts. Mind you, not all music does this for me... There is some music that just gets me stuck! But there is definitely some music that carries the writer... at least me... to higher planes. And that is a good thing. Obviously, as well, not an uncommon thing. I actually felt kind of satisfied to know that I had discovered something on my own that others knew as well. It makes me think that some of my other crazy thoughts aren't quite so crazy! You know how with sculptors, they say that they can actually see the image before them, in this shapeless mass of rock. All they have to do is uncover it. There is inspiration at work there. Sometimes, it feels to me as if I all I have to do is put my fingers on the keyboard and the words will come of their own accord. I just have to uncover them and give them space to live and breathe. I've read somewhere, that the things that we write in that place of inspiration are coming from somewhere else, the universal consciousness, if you want to call it that. It's where everything actually comes from. That the books or articles are waiting out there, just waiting to be given life... millions and billions of them... and we just have to give them the conduit. It's interesting don't you think that more than one person discovered evolution around the same time... Charles Darwin, whom we've all heard of and...check out Alfred Russel Wallace, who got the bright idea in 1855 and started publishing papers... This is just one example of similar ideas/theories appearing around the same time... Lots in the world of physics surprisingly enough... So... whatever bright idea you have... get it out and about before somebody else does!