A Tale of Writer’s Block
Sometimes ideas float around in my head and I have to write them down before they disappear just as quickly as they come to me.
Other times there’s nothing. A void that if you should yell into it you’ll hear an echo return.
With the delay in Fall and Holiday Collections and a case of writer’s block, I fear I haven’t been putting my best into Musings of a Muse lately and I’m really sorry about that. Lately, I feel a little overwhelmed. I’m so behind on approving comments and replying to them, so behind replying to comments and direct messages on Instagram, and forget emails and tweets.
My grammar and spelling are notoriously bad too. It happens because I’m typically doing at least five hundred things at one time and I hit that post button so hard before proofing myself.
I’m human. Welcome to my hot mess of a blog.
Please forgive me?
Writer’s block can hit from time to time but this is probably one of the worst times I’ve had with it. I feel very uninspired lately and I can’t pinpoint why that is. There are ideas floating around in my head but nothing in the beauty world has really captured me enough to write about it lately.
I’ve been thinking really hard about Musings of a Muse lately and one afternoon, several weeks ago, I was texting with Christine (Temptalia) and I said, maybe I should do more lifestyle posts. I mean, I’m doing them already, right? We chat slow cookers, avo toast, and a host of other things why can’t we do more of that? It’s not that makeup won’t be here! It’ll always be a major part of Musings of a Muse I am, forever, always, a complete beauty h0r but what if we did more of everything here. Remember this blog started with that catchphrase: “Musings of a Muse: Musings from a Cosmetic Whore”. It changed a few years ago because my dev team told me it wasn’t exactly politically correct to have whore and makeup in the same blog title. I keep asking myself to this day why I ever changed it when I loved it?
Cooking, travel, books, tech, gaming, it’s endless what we can discuss. Actually, we do already discuss most of that already!
Before the panoramic started I was an avid travel but what I posted about was limited to a few Instagram posts. What about all the times I’ve burned boiling water? Don’t you want to hear about that? Or my huge to be read pile of books and how I met Dena on “booktock” and she opened my eyes to an entirely new way of enjoying reviews on books.
We can do all those things, can’t we? I don’t want to take away your safe place. I think of Musings of a Muse as a place that everyone can come, joke, share anything and everything without the fear of judgment, and just enjoy themselves. I don’t personally like change which is why I’m asking if I change a little bit would it upset you or could you embrace it?
As I struggle with my writer’s block just know that inspiration will strike. It always does, From interesting Tiktok interactions, I have to wild and crazy food things I eat to that next great concealer I love I always have something to tell you.
This is my story and I like telling it to you. As I always say, time is precious, thank you for spending some of your precious time with me.
With all my love and respect.
Your muse.