The elusive muse shows up when we least expect her to, and never when we beseech her to. She treads softly upon us in the small hours of the night and colours our dreams.
Muse in Pocket, Pen in Hand is where a group of writers seek their stories, their voices, their muse, and let their words and hearts roam freely on the page.
Find out more about us below, and follow our Pinterest board to see all of our writing prompts.
YOUR MUSES
JOYCE CHUA
Joyce hails from the tropical island-city of Singapore, where she spends the perennially sunny days writing YA novels and short stories. Since graduating with a degree in English from the National University of Singapore, she has won a nationwide novel-writing competition organised by the National Arts Council. Her debut novel is a YA contemporary romance, LAMBS FOR DINNER (Straits Times Press, 2013), and her latest one, LAND OF SAND AND SONG (Penguin Random House SEA, 2021) is the first of an Asian fantasy series. She blogs about books, writing, and TV shows at The Writes of Passage in between writing her novels and can also be found on Instagram. Her writing has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan Singapore, The Straits Times (Urban), Yahoo! Singapore, and more. You can read all of her Muses stories here.
MEREDITH (M.A. Crosbie)
Meredith is a writer and art historian who loves getting lost in books, films, TV shows, and music. She writes adult historical fiction and fantasy featuring healthy dashes of romance and the supernatural. Her other passions include archaeology, whisky, baking, and trying not to squeal too loudly when she sees a dog. Originally from the US of A, she now lives in London and has a PhD in Venetian art history. You can read more about her work on her blog, and follow her on Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest, where she posts about feminism, books, and other lovely things (like dogs). You can read all of her Muses stories here.
NICOLE
WIP: WAR’S PROMISE, an epic fantasy
Nicole Evans is a writer of fantasy and science fiction. She is currently unpublished and is working fervently to get the “un” removed from that statement. With eight completed drafts in various states of revision under her belt, she has no plans of stopping. And she really can’t wait for you to read these stories.
Considering she has run out of space for putting rejections letters up on her wall, Nicole now uses her spare time doing the typical things that nerds do: blogging, dying repeatedly during video games (which she believes is retribution for the characters’ she’s killed), wishing she was the character she is currently reading about and trying to fight off the real world by living in her own head, with varying degrees of success. Nicole has a degree in Creative Writing and a minor in Film and Media Studies, and works as an academic advisor. You can find her personal blog here and her book review blog here. You can also hire her for editing services here. You can read all of her Muses stories here.
BECKY
Becky is terrible at writing bios so, instead, here’s a list of 10 fun facts about her.
1) She divides her time between Boston and Cape Cod, and can’t ever live away from the ocean. She tried once; it was a disaster.
2) She wrote her first novel at the tender age of 13. It was a monumental fail. Like, 600 pages of fail. But then she wrote another, and another, and another. Nothing like practice, right?
3) She has been drawing ever since she could hold a pencil, though experience has taught her that it’s better to ask to draw on other people’s walls than to assume it’s okay. She’s tried nearly everything, but colored-pencils hold a very special place in her heart…and in her wallet.
4) Coffee is a life-force. Seriously.
5) She’d prefer a vegetable platter over a box of candy any day.
6) She once flew a helicopter from Boston to New Hampshire.
7) Spiders are her nemesis.
8) Her pet parrot goes by Carmie or Bug, depending on the day, and graciously learned to imitate the sound of the fire alarm to wake her owner up in the mornings.
9) She once dyed her hair a “temporary” shade of purple. It was supposed to last two weeks, three at most. It lasted three years.
10) She’s still trying to convince her fiancé how wonderful a farm of fainting goats would be. Becky can be found on her blog where she’s still trying to come up with things to write, or on Pinterest and Instagram, where she chronicles her stories, all things pretty, and her latest passion, Project Kindness. You can read all of her Muses stories here.
R.K. BRAINERD
SORAYA CORCORAN
ROBERT F. NUGENT
MARIE STUMP
J.M. WHITTY
YOU ZHEN
SETH PETHERICK
JOSEPH PICKETT
SIRIA DE SILVA
JAMES MOSS
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