Here’s How You Can Challenge Creative Expectations Without Breaking The Bank
How to unleash the inspiration you need to create.
In Greek mythology, artists, thinkers, and other creative professionals had “mosis” to guide and inspire them. Mosis, the etymological term behind Muse, refers to wish and desire.
For amateurs of Classics, Homer mentions the Muses at the beginning of his iconic Iliad and Odyssey, asking them to help him with the story. The Greek Mythology recalls no less than nine Muses that inspire artists.
They are versed in music, comedy, tragedy, poetry, dance, hymns, astronomic, and rhetoric, along with subjects that would not typically be associated with arts such as grammar, geometry, agriculture, justice, wedding, and history.
If there is one word that can describe the Greek Muses, it would be diversity. Nowadays, we continue to thank our muses for inspiration and blame them when we experience a creative block.
Being creatively frustrated, unfortunately, is not uncommon for authors. Whether you write for a living or pleasure, finding inspiration is one of the most challenging things you will have to do.
The Greek Muses, however, could give you some clues as to where to find ideas. The nine Muses of the Greek…
