A Chat with My Muse

You rang?

Yes! I just realized it's Saturday! Where the devil did the week go? I've got to do a blog for Monday already.

Relax. No hurry. You've got all day tomorrow.

Oh, yeah. We know how that goes. I get up at 6 a.m., have a cup of coffee, pet the cat, and the next thing I know the late-night local news is on. And I still haven't done a blog for Monday.

So, write one.

That's why I called. You're my muse. What should I write about?

Whatever you've been writing blogs about for the last four years.

Yeah, well that's sort of the problem. Obviously you haven't noticed that I'm sitting here up to my neck in almost 500 already-written blogs trying sort them out and arrange them for my book on blogs. I'm getting mind-freeze. I need a new one for Monday, but I can't figure out a subject to write one on.

You mean you "can't figure out on what subject to write."

Oh, great! You who couldn't pick a transitive verb out of a pile of predicate nominatives are giving me English lessons?

Could YOU pick a transitive verb out of a pile of predicate nominatives?

No, but that's not the point. Read my lips: I need to write a blog for Monday.

Childhood memories?

Done that. Lots.

How about jobs you've held?

Ditto.

Pets? Family? Friends? Past loves? What you had for breakfast?

Been there. Done that.

How about a nice, projectile-vomiting rant against something that ticks you off? You never seem to run out of ideas for those.

True, but I do way too many of those as it is.

Kittens? Puppies? Bunny rabbits?

Uh, not today. I'm in a hurry.

Okay, how about this conversation?

Nah. The reader'd never buy it. I'll just have to keep on thinking.

Okay. While you're doing that, I'll go have a beer.

Gee, yeah, you do that. Sorry to have bothered you!

Hey, no problem. I do what I can.

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