Calls and Charges

I've noticed a theme in my titles: my novel Brigid's Charge, Calliope's Call. I'm obviously interested in how the Divine / our souls / Source / Inspiration (whatever you want to call it) guides us, calls us, or bosses us around. In my novel, Deborah struggles with her charge, and truth be told, so have I. The writer's life is not easy. I've made sacrifices that still weigh on me. But I can't imagine any other way of life. I've tried. I went through a depression that was triggered, in part, by trying to give up writing. I found that I couldn't ignore the call, so I embraced it again. I love what Clarissa Pinkola Estes says about creativity: It's like excrement; you gotta let it out or it will make you sick. So, let's all let it out and Create.