Giving Credit Where Credit is Due
© Ashlee
This job sucks. I don't get any recognition, despite the fact that I do all of the work. I'm not just saying that either, I really *do* do all of the work. Do you have any idea how hard this job is? The pressures that come with it? I have people begging for ideas, plots, character growth, and *she* expects me to just come up with it off the top of my head? In like two seconds flat? Keep dreaming.
But that's not the worse part, oh no. She actually gives credit to some boy-toy she has hanging on her wall. A dumb-ass poster of some half-naked, dumber than a stick, and more dense than a rock Cowboy from somewhere down south. He just sits there looking pretty and collecting drool while I have the grueling job of actually thinking! So I've decided to take my revenge, an evil plot I know, but it's the best device us Muses have against writers…
Have you even been unable to write no matter how many ideas invaded your head? You'd sit at the computer or stare at the lines of the paper and nothing would come? Not a word, or a sentence. Instead you end up doodling or checking your e-mail in hopes of inspiration?? Well that ain't gonna help! You're shit outta luck till we decide to help you!!
Its called Writer's Block-itis. It hits suddenly and quickly, with no cure in sight. Hey, us Muses need something to help us out! I mean, it's like labor unions, they can strike, and we can inflict an illness. Whatever gets us the respect we deserve. That's right, *we* deserve, not the writers. They are merely outlets for us, fingers to do the work. We think of everything, creating plot lines is not easy work…you should know. Have you ever thought anything up without your muse? Thought not.
Anyway, I digress from the original point of this. I want recognition from the person I inspire, Ashlee. That damn poster is just a freaking poster!! Did you have him when you first started writing? No! You had me, Habib. Yeah remember me? The guy who's saved your ass a million times by flooding your head with ideas, who got you A's on your English essays and short stories, who got you nominated, who made the other member's of your 8th grade class scared of you because of 'Freedom's Revenge'…well forget that example, but you see what I mean! I made you who you are, so how about at least thanking me once in a while? That's all I ask. A simple request, only requiring four syllables.
Now I know you don't have to, you could be ungrateful and take all the credit, but that's why we muses have our back up plan: Writer's Block-itis. Just remember that. And a warning to all you other writer's: be grateful you have a muse, because one day they just might be gone!
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Well, first of I'd like to thanks Habib for being a great guy and muse, even if you are a tribal in-training shaman from Zimbabwe <g> and I'm glad that you finally let me write again, even if it was for your own reasons. Secondly, I'd love it if you told me…uh, I mean *us* what you thought!!!