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Sunday, April 11, 2010
New Mini Blog Bit Of Muse Therapy!
Happy Weekend, All!!!
Sooo excited that Spring is here! I gave my muses a little work/play-time in our yard yesterday, and they're beyond happy campers now!
Just a quick note to let you all know there's now a new Mini Blog Bit of Muse Therapy posted at http://www.savvyauthors.com/blog/index.cfm
Stop on by to Meet-and-Greet Your Muses with a game of Name That Muse!
Fun stuff for both you and your muses too!
Sexy Sassy Smart Muse Therapy Wishes --- D. D. Scott
P.S. I'll be back in a day or two with some terrific writing career tips I picked-up from big-time authors Karen Rose, Dianna Love and Traci Hall. I met these fantastic gals last month while debuting my Muse Therapy Live Workshops in Pensacola Beach FL at GCCRWA's Silken Sands Conference! And wow do they know how to get 'er done!Labels: Muse Therapy
Sunday, March 28, 2010
April Muse Therapy Online Class Last For Non-Private Groups Til June!
Don't miss out! My April Muse Therapy Online Class is the last Muse Therapy Online Class for a Non-Private Group 'til June 2010!
Sign-up today at http://www.carolinaromancewriters.com/april10.htm
I'm giving a fabulous extra treat to the next 5 people who sign-up by the 3/31 deadline!!!
Email me at ddscott@ddscott.com as soon as you sign-up!!!
Class starts April 5th!!!
And wow will you (and your muses too!) laugh AND dance your asses off!!!
Sexy Sassy Smart Muse Therapy Wishes --- D. D. ScottLabels: Muse Therapy
Friday, March 12, 2010
Do You Need Muse Therapy?
If you're not sure you need Muse Therapy, check out my Savvy Authors inaugural blog today at
http://www.savvyauthors.com/blog/index.cfm
I'm thrilled to be a new Guest Blogger at Savvy Authors the second Friday of each month...so mark your calendars!!! I'd love to chat with you and your muses too!!!
It's time to inject life into your tired and/or stressed-out muses! And I'm just the "therapist" to give you some fun and fabulous tips and tricks to rein in your creative divas. You'll up your page counts and be more-than-comfortable saying "up yours" to all those Julia Cameron-style "crazymakers" and "wet blankets" raining on your writing-for-publication parade!
Sexy Sassy Smart Muse Therapy Wishes --- D. D. ScottLabels: Muse Therapy
Monday, February 22, 2010
Muse Therapy Sneak Peek Tomorrow!!!
Happy Huge, Wet Snow Monday!
How about a Muse Therapy Sneak Peek to start your week?!
I'm Guest Blogging tomorrow - Tuesday 2/23 - at Romance Lives Forever!!! Stop by and commiserate with us on one of my favorite Muse Therapy Online Class topics...Writing Bi-Polar: I Suck vs I'm a Genius...Fun stuff!!!
Prepare to LOL a whole bunch and learn a ton too!
Here's the link:
http://romancelivesforever.blogspot.com/
Sexy Sassy Smart Muse Therapy Wishes --- D. D. Scott
P.S. To sign-up for Muse Therapy, check out the Where's D. D. page right here at www.DDScott.comLabels: Muse Therapy
Friday, January 22, 2010
Want a Muse Therapy Sneak Peek?
TGIF, All!
Hope January has been a fabulous kick-in-the-pants for your 2010 new year!!!
I, for one, am focusing on love and more love then more and Paying It Forward any and every way I can!!! With the dark days of Haiti we've already faced-down and will be continuing to try to bring light to for years to come, I'm going for the gusto of spreading as much love, laughter and good cheer that I can. To me, sharing our hearts and creative souls to find solutions to the world's problems, or at least bring a bit of joy along each of our paths, is what life is all about.
For writers, I'm Paying It Forward by providing them with "therapy"...LOL!...we could all use that, right? LOL! Muse Therapy that is...
How about a Sneak Peak of what Muse Therapy and reigning in your creative divas is all about?
Stop by Romance University today where I'm guest blogging about Name That Muse: UnderDog To The Rescue! Here's the link:
http://romanceuniversity.org/2010/01/22/name-that-muse-%e2%80%9cunderdog%e2%80%9d-to-the-rescue/
Hope to see you in "therapy"!
Sexy Sassy Smart Muse Therapy & Pay It Forward Wishes --- D. D. Scott
P.S. Here's to hoping you find your own way to help the world too...you never know when you and/or your loved ones will need the kind of help the people of Haiti need now.Labels: Muse Therapy
Monday, November 23, 2009
Muse Therapy Testimonials
Happy Monday, All, and Happy Holiday Kick-Off Week too!
With all the hustle and buzz of the Holiday Season, do you need a good reason (aka excuse) to justify pampering yourself and your muses? And how about jump-starting your 2010 writing-for-publication career goals and aspirations?
With today's tight market, writers need all the encouragement we can get, right?
Well...I'm here to give you just the year-end, new year-beginning kick in the pants you need to make 2010 the year you produce new pages with gusto!
My final Muse Therapy Class for 2009 starts December 2nd and runs through December 14th. Sign-up today at http://www.neorwa.com/index.php/Workshops/Workshops
Let these testimonials from recent Muse Therapy Online Class Participants work their magic, then do the trick and get you to click the sign-up link above to nourish your creative divas.
Here's a peek from a single mom and mad scientist by day job and an unpublished writer of elf stories...
"I don't know how else to describe it other than to describe where I was and
where I am now. Once upon a time, my muse and I worked together and the words
flowed like... a steady stream after a night's worth of good rain. Then one day
(lol, I remember the date: December 1998) the stream went dry and nothing
emerged. No words, no thoughts. Nothing that could remotely be described as
creative happened. I was totally lost. Devastated. Then I took a big leap of chance and took this workshop (the only way I would let myself take this workshop was to argue with myself that I would not lurk (like I do on just about every other board, loop, class I've ever been a part of), but had to participate in order to fully experience what I personally needed to experience). And things opened up for me. And boy did it help me. Like I said, I can now hear my muse and see her. She talks to me daily about life, liberty, and the pursuit of a villain for the wip. I now dream again. Good dreams. Dreams of stories. Like I used to way back when (not
as many, but they're slowly increasing in number and vividness).
I do not have the words to aptly convey the joy I experience on a daily
basis having reconnected with that lost part of myself. I know that my journey
to self reclamation is not done yet, but I'm not afraid of it AND, more
important, I now recognize that I am the captain of this ship -- both internal and
external. My muse is no longer an elusive Greek myth, but a reality that is
incorporated inside me. Once I made that realization, then it opened up all
sorts of revelations like...I can fix me (don't know about you, but trying to
fix an elusive Greek myth is sort of, well, nigh to impossible comes to mind)
and I can believe in me and my abilities, because I already do -- now I just have
more to believe in.
I know that I still have some issues (like getting back to the keyboard) to work
through with my muse self, but it's okay. I'm not afraid of it. And I can't
thank you, DD, enough for presenting this workshop when you did -- the timing was
just perfect for me in more ways than I can count."
And here's a bit on the Muse Therapy experience from a military wife and cancer survivor:
"Hi, all! I'm Rita (name changed for privacy), and I live in Eastern Washington near the border with Idaho. I've been writing ever since I could string two words
together and hold a crayon (long before home computers, I'm afraid), and I've
never once given a thought to my muse. I've spent years honing my craft -- studying scene and sequel, MR units, characterization, etc, but not a second on my muse. I don't have a name for her -- never cared about her. So why am I here?
Last month I was diagnosed with cancer and had surgery. I'll be fine caught early and all that), but it was a brush with mortality that reminded me how short and precious life is. Right on the heels of that I found out that my husband will be going on a 6 month deployment to Afghanistan starting late this winter. While he's gone I will have the fun of moving my family to the other coast and getting them settled there to await his return. With all this going on, I have been advised by well-meaning friends to "get my priorities straight" and concentrate on what's important. By this, they mean for me to quit writing and get done what they think is important. Every time some well meaning person says that there is a small voice in the back of my head that starts screaming that I won't make it without her -- I
think that's my muse, and I think she's right. So here I am.
I'm starting from scratch, and I have the feeling my muse may be a little dusty and bruised from abuse, but I think meeting her may be the most important thing I do this month (right up there with the wound care I'm still dealing with from surgery earlier this month). Please forgive me if I'm a little slow, but I'm new to this."
Feedback from participants like the two fabulous women above has sooo touched my heart! Doesn't get much more powerful than this...
Happy Holidays To All!
Hope to see you "in therapy"...Muse Therapy that is...LOL!!!
Sexy Sassy Smart Muse Therapy & Holiday Wishes --- D. D. ScottLabels: Muse Therapy
Monday, November 9, 2009
Muse Therapy, Christmas in Oz & Holiday Movie Magic!
Ohhh yeahhhh...bring on the holidays!
I'm a Holiday Nut...yes, I'm "crazy" as in that kind of "nut" too...but nothing gets my muses going like The Holidays...D. D. Scott goes all-out nuts for The Holidays!!!
For example, each year I decorate my home with a brand new holiday theme! Drum roll please - to the beat of Amy Grant's "The Christmas Collection" CD as that's my holiday music of choice - this year's theme is "Christmas in Oz"! Our home will become Emerald City...complete with a Yellow Brick Road leading to our all-things-green, Oz-tastic Christmas tree (thanks goes to my fabulous niece Sam for that idea!)!!!
Oh...and the topper for the tree will be this huge, huge iron cornucopia turned upside down and spray-painted metallic, sparkling emerald green (of course)...why?!...that's the Wicked Witch's hat!!! They'll be tons of flying monkeys helping Santa's elves this year too!!! And the holiday cocktail of choice will be something made with Creme de Menthe!
Now...besides each year's over-the-top theme, I indulge in a bunch of way beyond terrific holiday movies! Here's my list:
The Family Stone
The Holiday
Christmas with the Kranks
Jim Carrey's The Grinch
Four Christmases
and of course all the favorite Holiday TV specials - i.e. Rudolph, Frosty, Charlie Brown Christmas, Jack Frost, Baby New Year, etc.
For more holiday movie flick greats, check out my friend Heather Long's Daily Dose Fantasy-Romance Blog at http://dailydose-fantasyromance.blogspot.com/2009/11/top-ten-holiday-flicks.html
What about all of you out there in Blogville? What gets your muses into the fabulous spirit of the holiday season?!
Sexy Sassy Smart Muse Therapy Holiday Wishes --- D. D. Scott
P.S. If you need help reining in your muses for 2010, get-off to a great, writing-for-publication new year start by taking my Muse Therapy Online class December 2nd thru 14th at http://www.neorwa.com/index.php/Workshops/Workshops Labels: Muse Therapy
Friday, October 16, 2009
Muse Therapy In Action!
TGIF!
Want to see my Muse Therapy Online Classes in action?!
Check out the blog post one of my current participants just wrote for OCCRWA...
http://occsliceoforange.blogspot.com/
I'm helping writers of all genres rein in their creative divas...one muse at a time!
Join me! I'd love to see you "in therapy"...LOL!
Get the scoop on Muse Therapy, check out my class schedule and find the links to sign-up at:
http://www.ddscott.com/muse.html
Sexy Sassy Smart Muse Therapy Wishes --- D. D. ScottLabels: Muse Therapy
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
There's Still Time To Sign-Up For Muse Therapy!
Happy Hump Day, All!
Just a quick note to let you know there's still a couple days left to sign-up for my next Muse Therapy Online Class.
Muse Therapy - D. D. Scott style - is all about injecting life into writers' tired and/or stressed out muses. I'll give writers fun and fabulous tools to analyze their muses' funks, rein in their creative divas and up their page counts.
The next session begins this coming Monday, October 12th and goes thru Saturday November 7th at the Orange County Chapter of RWA. Sign-up at http://www.occrwa.org/onlineclassOct09.html
For more info on Muse Therapy, check out http://www.ddscott.com/muse.html
Hope to see you "in therapy"...LOL!
Sexy Sassy Smart Muse Therapy Wishes --- D. D. Scott
http://www.DDScott.com
http://twitter.com/ddscottromcomLabels: Muse Therapy
Friday, June 5, 2009
Muse Therapy Is Officially Launched and Making A Huge Debut!!!
Happy Friday, All!!!
I'm thrilled to fill you in on the launch of my Muse Therapy Online Classes and Live Workshops!
The idea is proving to be a huge hit! I'm booking dates like crazy!!!
Here's the scoop -
You can catch one of my Muse Therapy Online Classes or Live Workshops at the following venues:
Sept 14 thru Sept 28, 2009 - RWA Chick Lit Writers of the World Online Class (www.chicklitwriters.com)
Oct 12 thru Nov 7, 2009 - OCCRWA Online Class (www.occrwa.org)
Mar 2010 - GCCRWA Silken Sands Conference Live Workshop Pensacola FL (www.gccrwa.com)
Apr 2010 - RWA Carolina Romance Writers Online Class (www.carolinaromancewriters.com)
I've got several other classes lined-up too. I'm just waiting to confirm dates in order to add them to the schedule. Woohoo!
Currently, I'm driving my DH nuts waiting to hear whether or not I'll be providing Muse Therapy for the 2010 RT BookLovers' Convention in Columbus OH and for RWR in an article-based Muse Therapy series.
So what is Muse Therapy?
Muse Therapy - D. D. Scott style - is all about injecting life into tired and/or stressed out muses. I'll give writers fun and fabulous tools to analyze their muses' funks, reign in their creative divas and up their page counts.
Discover what makes them tick. What ticks them off. And what makes them dance like nobody's watching.
We'll name your muses and host a very special meet-and-greet just for them, then dig deep into their psyches by examining "muse disorders" such as:
** Unleashing Your Inner Sybil
** Writing Bi-Polar: I Suck vs. I'm a Genius
** What Do You Mean I'm Neurotic? No, I'm Not. Well, Not Exactly. But Okay...There Are Times When. Like You Need to Know That. Anyway, I Was Thinking, My Jeep Is Red
** Rorschach For Writers: I See Dead Lines
** Stimulants: When Coffee, Chocolate and Martinis Aren't Enough
Once we recognize, acknowledge and accept our muses' afflictions, we'll find terrific tricks and "trips" to treat our word witches.
I provide Muse Therapy Online Classes for either two or four weeks and can do a Live Workshop anywhere from an hour to a full day. Just depends on how long you'd like to be in therapy. LOL!!
I'll provide fabulous hand-outs and super-cool tchotchkes for all participants. Muse Therapy Live also has a fabulous PowerPoint presentation and hilariously productive, interactive exercises!
More information will be available soon on my website www.DDScott.com as well as at all sites hosting therapy sessions.
If you are a member of a writing group and would like to be "in therapy" with your muses, email me here at my website. I'll be glad to see if I can work you into my schedule.
And make sure you sign-up for my e-newsletter as I'll have a fabulous Muse Therapy contest this month for my subscribers.
Leave a comment now for this blog post and be entered to win a special Muse Therapy treat!
Tell me what trips your muses' triggers...or ask me any questions about Muse Therapy D. D. Scott style...
Sexy, Sassy, Smart Wishes --- D. D. ScottLabels: Muse Therapy
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Hello, Universe! It's Me...D. D. Scott
"Hey, Universe! It's me...D. D. Scott. I'm ready for great things. Send them my way."
That's it in a big 'ole nutshell. That's all you gotta do. One of the most profound life lessons I've stumbled upon, and it's condensed into one, power-packed and energy-abundant line or two. Now that's fabulous!
Harlequin Blaze author Tawny Weber taught me this terrific life tip just a couple weeks ago when we were discussing ways to court our muses. I'm blogging about it because in less than a month, the concept has changed my life.
Tawny told me about the power of intention - a concept I'd also been working with through The Chopra Center's Deepak Chopra and Dr. David Simon. But her take on the vital energy created by simply thinking about and visualizing your creativity and success held a power over me that just won't let go.
She explained how I could put in a call to the Universe, summonsing its energy to empower me to achieve my intentions. And wow is it working...and in both expected and completely unexpected ways.
Here's the scoop:
I knew May would be a HUGE month for me because Jupiter and Neptune are doing some astrological bootscootin' they only do every thirteen years or so. Actually, they're doing this dance three times in 2009 so ohhhh yeahhh, look out, I'll be making gigantic D. D. Scott waves from now on...but I digress.
Let me get you back to my point here...I take Tawny's Courting Your Muse class, and she teaches me to put my publishing career intentions into the Universe and summons the energy out there to help me succeed.
Two days after reading Tawny's advise then sitting down with the Universe and having a chat with a gin and tonic and fabulous sunset to complete the scene, I walk into a beyond fabulous crystal and glass boutique in New Buffalo, MI and meet a woman I'm pretty sure the Universe put in my path to keep me steadfast on my creative journey.
The beautiful, uber stylish woman was Basia, a bubbling jewel of inspiration and creative energy. We were talking about her glass designs...which, btw are gorgeous, must-have beacons of light and positive energy flow...when she, out of nowhere, told me "well, you know, Honey, you just throw your intentions into the Universe, get 'em out there and see what happens".
My insides shimmered with recognition and hope hearing Basia's unsolicited advice. I'd never heard that approach until Tawny showed me the way...then, to hear it told back to me within days of my cocktails with the Universe, I was beyond blown away. (Just ask Sweet Man. He was with me. We were forced to stop for green tea and chocolate on the way home while me and my muses rambled on and on about what all this meant. Don't worry. Sweet Man already knows I'm nuts, another thing Basia told me about herself that I could totally relate to and a similarity I think Sweet Man found refreshing as he realized he wasn't the only man loving a creative diva. LOL!!!)
Oh, and one more Basia tidbit, she had a copy of Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way" on a display table amongst her chakra crystals...the very book I digest over and over...the one that allowed me to finally rid my life of the wet blankets and crazymakers dragging me down paths I wanted no part of.
I know...you've got to be feeling the same goosebumps I did...what an uncanny, karma connection.
One final thought then I'm off to visit with my characters and bring their lives into the Universe on the pages of my next novel in progress...
Besides meeting Basia, my little Universe talk has manifested itself in a couple other ways too. I confirmed dates in September for teaching my first online Muse Therapy class for the RWA Chick Lit Writers of the World and am looking forward to several additional opportunities that presented themselves for both online and live workshops. In addition, my agent thinks May might turn out to be a huge month too for securing my first book deal.
So much for Mercury in retrograde...I'm hanging tough and dancing with the stars!
Sexy, Sassy, Smart Wishes --- D. D. ScottLabels: Muse Therapy
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
D. D. Scott, Muse Therapist
I'm thrilled to announce a new set of articles I'll be debuting soon on Muse Therapy.
And no, I'm not talking about MUSE Therapy as in erectile dysfunction therapy in which 'MUSE' stands for a 'medicated urethral system for erection'. No. No. This is not about injecting pellets into the penis to ensure erection.
Muse Therapy - D. D. Scott style - will consists of a series of articles launching me as a writer's go-to-gal for therapy aimed at injecting life, words, ideas, and stories into their tired and/or stressed out muses.
To borrow from Nora Roberts, we're going to be getting a grip on our "fickle muse sluts".
I'll show you how to analyze your muses' "disorders". Then, after much cuss and discuss, I'll give you the tools to reign in your creative divas and up your page counts.
You''ll discover, like I did, that the secret to upping your page count isn't done by saying "up yours" to your muses. Oh no. We're talking you wine and dine those fabulous chicks. Whether it's with coffee and chocolate or whining about your wardrobe and feasting on the fabulous finds in some chic boutique.
It's all about pampering those fickle sluts 'til you get out of them what you need.
We'll start with topics like:
'Unleashing Your Inner Sybil'
'Writing Bipolar: I Suck vs. I'm a Genius'
'What Do You Mean I'm Neurotic? No I'm Not. Well, Not Exactly. But Okay...There Are Times When. Like You Need to Know That. Anyway, I Was Thinking That My Jeep Is Red'
'Rorschach For Writers: I See Dead Lines'
'Stimulants: When Coffee, Chocolate, and Martinis Aren't Enough'
Okay...that's all for now. Just a peek. Look for my Muse Therapy launch this spring!!!
In the mean time, hunt down your fickle muse sluts and keep giving them mani/pedi combos. Come spring, they'll be glad you did and so will you.
Sexy, Sassy, Smart Wishes --- D. D. ScottLabels: Muse Therapy
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