The Passionate Muse

A hybrid book that alternates sections of an original short story, "One Another", with chapters that illuminate how emotion and fiction interact.

Laced with humour and revelation, Anne Wheeler's creative non-fiction stories tell of her serendipitous journey in the seventies, when she broke with tradition and found her own way to becoming a filmmaker and raconteur. Join this celebrated screenwriter and director as she travels south of Mombasa after calling off her wedding; attempts to gain acceptance in a male-dominated film collective; travels to India to visit friends who are devoted to a radical Master, and ultimately discovers her sense of purpose and passion close to home, sharing stories that would otherwise be lost about ordinary people living extraordinary lives. Taken by the Muse: On the Path to Becoming a Filmmaker is a must-read for anyone open to exploring the possibilities of who they are and what they might do with their lives - and for those who love a good story told with integrity and warmth.

A Romantic's Passion ( The Tenth Muse) is based on a true story about one of the most haunting and torrid romances. Where the true call of love is expressed in an enriching collection of inimitable prose poems, love letters, essays, extended verse and intimate photo's, that tell the story of a laureled poet and the heat of his passions for his beloved muse. Revealing the most beautiful and elaborate images of love and devotion. Where the desire, the romance and his dearly loved became his life's work.

A daring collection of poems and quotes inspired at the stroke of midnight. Inside you will find a unique blend of intimate emotions beautifully woven with clever rhymes. Midnight Muse will awaken the curious reader to the passions of love, relationships, time and life itself. WARNING: The words inside these pages may be shocking to some, arousing to others, and thought-provoking to all.

Who is the Muse? Why do we need Her? How do we tap into that shining current of inspiration and create something never before seen, something beautiful and terrible, fantastical and infinitely real. The Muse is as vital to our lives today as She was in ancient times. She changes as we change and Her Arts are continually in flux, Arts that we simply cannot live without...or that we wouldn't want to. Among other things, they are tools to make and re-make our world even as we work with Fate to weave the web of life and death, of creation and destruction. Through four faces, four masks of the Muse, this book explores different aspects of inspiration, creativity, and magick. Aphrodite, Cerridwen, Ariadne, and the Lady of the Lake await--each to teach us of the Arts and what we are capable of at our very best. By the poetry, prayer, invocation, and ritual contained within we can come to know the Muse and so know ourselves and the gifts we all have within us that demand recognition and expression. The path of the Muse may not always be an easy or a safe one, but anything worth having is worth paying the price for. Who is the Muse? Who are we? This book is a journey, one that we must dare to take and dare to take hold of what is revealed.. As we must return to the well of memory, the depths of the ocean, and the currents below the earth, there to claim what was ours all along.