Going on a Date with the Muse

Tips, tricks, and exercises to return you to your most creative self.

Alexander Lopez
10 min readFeb 16, 2024

Hello, and welcome back, my dear subscribers!

I love you and I am SO grateful for you. How are you today? Are you having a good Sunday? What have you been up to? Let me know in the comments.

This morning on my walk, I was thinking about you, and all of the exciting things that I want to bring to you this year. An idea came to mind, a first offering of sorts, one that I think would be fun to share with you all.

Here it goes:

Dissecting our individual and collective creative routines…

Do you ever wonder why we do what we do?

Why our elusive, perplexing, individual, strange habits are the way they are? What is it that makes us navigate so uniquely when communing with the other world from which our ideas make themselves known?

I always find myself quite curious about this, about the creative habits and routines that manifest among artists and writers, the strange quirks that demand to exist in the habits of my friends, my peers, my family members, and myself.

I love reading articles and interviews about how and why my favorite creatives only write in the bath or while walking in the woods or while listening to Chopin or while eating a specific type of sandwich or cookie.

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Alexander Lopez

Hi y'all! Happy to be here! My name is Alex. I am a writer & content creator. BA from Dartmouth and MFA from NCSU. Also @alexlopezwrites (44K) on TikTok