E.M. Williams
There's no good answer to that question. The closest I've seen is in Elizabeth Gilbert's book, Big Magic. I think often of her description of Lawrence Stern getting dressed in his finest and parading up and down his halls, inviting the muse to enter. It's as good a strategy as anything else.
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