Sam Winchester

Aww damn, you’ve lost your muse? I’m sorry baby, that sucks and sometimes takes a bloody age to get back {once I lost Sammy for almost a month, it was horrible}. Right, I’m not sure about anyone else, but this is what I like to do when I lose my muse: 

Watch episodes/films with your muse in. It sounds so simple but man does it work. Seriously just listen to their dialogue and watch their different mannerisms, habits and reactions to certain situations.

Read fanfiction/books. Not necessarily just the smutty stuff {although, we all know how awesome that is} but the gen fanfics too. Seriously, no writer would ever get anywhere without reading. Every writer’s learned from previous writer’s and maybe even begun to write in a similar style/borrowed their techniques etc. It really does help.

Listen to fanmixes/songs that remind you of your muse. This is what I like to do when I’m writing my replies {maybe the odd disney soundtrack too but that’s irrelevant *cough cough*}. For example, listen to sad songs for sad threads or if your character has a certain background, listen to a song that sings about a similar story etc.

Memes/Drabble prompts etc. Any short writing task to get you back in to the whole writing thing. Just write, write, write — even if you think it’s crap just write. But wait, what if no one’s sending you any prompts? The answer is who gives a crap? It’s their loss and you can just give yourself prompts instead. Viva la muse!!