Fingers table-tapping impotently. Clock striking, but not the keys on my laptop. Blank face reflected on white empty screen mirrors the inside of my dark empty head.

I prod my muse. “Any thoughts?”

She waves a bottle in my direction, hiccups and sinks into a torpor.

“Try Facebook,” she mumbles.

Vivienne Burgess needs to get some perspective in life, get her muse off the booze, and take a holiday from Facebook. It’s not helping her creativity… or blood pressure.