Musing on Muses

I started this project two and a half years ago. I can’t believe it’s that short a time. My first book took me eight years from start to finish. Maybe I learned something in the process. Or maybe my muse was more impatient this time. I had a story to tell. The more I wrote, the more I kept thinking, “This is a great story!” It just had to come out. I made many changes along the way, but they all seem so inevitable now. As if there was no other way to tell this story, no other way to write this book. My website was just as an afterthought. I decided that as much as I love the way Shakespeare uses meter and how it interacts with The Sonnets, it would be too much to put all I have to say about that in this book. So even though I initially wrote about the meter of every sonnet, I took almost all of that out and put it online. Maybe that will be my next muse. Anyway, the website got me to blogging and it’s been fun watching all the visitors come from all over the world. I didn’t expect that. (Hi, everyone!) I hope my readers have been having fun because that’s the point. At that’s what I hope my book will accomplish, too. I will keep on blogging, but I’m going to do things differently now that my book has launched. I’m not sure where my blogging muse will take me, but I’m confident it will be interesting territory.