Like all artists, be they painters, or sculptors, writers need that little extra to bring out the emotional side and put passion into their best work. I am no different and to get my writing energy level up I need a Muse. I need someone to be there in my head and my heart, a person of desire to inflame the passions and lust brings out the erotic and sensual side of my alter ego, Byron George.
As Brian George the writer of adventures and crime I often need a villainous person as a picture in my head, someone who might have done me harm in the past, who I can get revenge on in my novel. I know that we have to be careful that these real villains are not identifiable, but in some cases, I’ve even felt “so what, sue me,” and “I’ll prove that you really were the shitty person in real life.” As an alternative, my good characters are also representative of people that I loved in the past. Not necessarily as lovers but just as lovely personas. When they do things in the book I try to hear their tone of voice in the dialogue.
When I get real love, then the ‘Muse’ comes into their own, they might not be the character in a novel, or they may even; but they are the incentive, the inspiration that drives me onwards to even more creativity. Then my writing energy takes off into the stratosphere, confidence zooms, and it’s almost a euphoria like a drug high. Like all…
