When I get stuck in my writing, one of the things I do to snap out of it is play on Flickr.  I love to thumb my nose at a bullying linear mind with the symbol, color and emotion of art. I favorite the most inspiring images.

I have a lot of Flickr favorites (if that tells you anything about my writing this past year). I thought I’d start sharing them.

I’ve been stuck in my story since the last few days of my vacation and haven’t known why. Its been unclear to me if it’s problem with the plot, a characer, my writing, or what.  A few times, I’ve railed at the Muse in despair. What am I missing? What do I need?

Yesterday I went to my Flickr faves and picked an image by clicking randomly on a thumbnail. The thumbnails are tiny so you can’t really see them; it’s like plopping your finger down on a name in a page of the phone book.  I landed on this one.

Last night, I watched “Saving Grace” which I rented from Netflix without knowing what it was about. It’s about a self-destructive cop who gets saddled with a fat, snaggle-toothed, tobacco-chewing angel named Earl.

Before bed, I started a new book. The necromance protagonist has a “dark angel” accompanying her on her capers.

This morning I clicked randomly again in the thumbnails. Result below.

I’m not exactly sure what the Muse is trying to tell me, but I’m beginning to get the theme.

Edmund Dulac–Edgar Allan Poe-The Bells Poem, originally uploaded by finsbury.

[tags]writing, Flickr, angels[/tags]