My muse is cheating on me.

Some times I feel as though my muse is cheating on me. I have always been blessed with creativity and imaginative thinking and numerous times through out my life I have had, what I thought, were brilliant ideas or inspiration only to find someone else had the same inspiration and produced their version of the idea faster or better than I could afford to.

The latest example of this is that I spent part of last year, along with my partner, creating a new children’s book based on the classic tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. We finished our project several months before the end of the year and we began shopping the manuscript around. Now if you pay attention to current films you will know that in the beginning of March there was a new film released called Jack the Giant Killer. My hart sank a little.

We, however, are not giving up on our project because it is intended for a much different audience. If we had not finished our project we may have abandoned it when we saw the news, but it does go to show that a good idea will always find its way into the light no matter who had the idea first. So my lesson out of this is, as always, you have to believe in what you are doing because if you don’t no one else will and that you need to act on your inspirations because someone else may have had the same inspiration.

Good luck and keep writing.