A writer’s guide to the inner genius

Demon Muse is a blog about the deep nature of creativity. It’s aimed specifically at writers, but it speaks to everybody with a stake or interest in creative work. The blog’s guiding idea is simple but profound: creativity feels like an interaction or collaboration with a separate, independent force in the psyche. When a writer or artist experiences flow or inspiration, the ideas and emotions seem to come from “somewhere else.” So why not actively approach it this way? Why not treat creativity as truly representing a relationship with a muse, daimon, or genius?

My name is Matt Cardin, and I’m the creator and writer of Demon Muse. I’m a writer, teacher, and musician with a special focus on horror, philosophy, religion, creativity, consciousness, and culture. My books include Dark Awakenings (2010) and Divinations of the Deep (2002), both of which explore the electric frontier between religion and horror. I blog in a more freeform style at The Teeming Brain (about horror, religion, the paranormal, education, cultural-apocalyptic trends, and other assorted topics) and am the creator of the instrumental music project Daemonyx, whose first album, Curse of the Daimon (2009), invokes many of the themes pursued here at Demon Muse.

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