Coffee With David

Do you ever go with your friends from work to dinner, a coffee house, a bar or somewhere you can just relax and blow off steam? It is a little hard to take your main coworker out “to happy hour” when that coworker is your muse. After all, that coworker is somewhere inside your brain feeding you lines and paragraphs. You can’t amble up to the bar and say “give me a (whatever) and another for my muse” or “hey, my muse is picking up this round.”

However, I have found that I do need off time to hang out with my muse. Obviously, I cannot take it out nor do I run around saying “I am talking to the voices in my head.” Oftentimes I work on puzzle games or imagination exercises. Sometimes I review something I have written or something blocking me from going forward in a casual manner. Other times I may go to a park or a mall and just people watch while I try to guess stranger’s life stories.

It is not the same or as much fun as spending time with a friend, but it does keep the imagination flowing and growing—and the stories coming.

Thank you for reading and please visit www.davidalanlucas.com for updates on the stories I write.