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I’ve been going through something of a slump. It’s something that all writers go through at some time in their careers. Whether you have a contract or an article due, or a manuscript that the publisher is waiting for, or just have been neglecting your blog for lack of writing motivation - it bites.

One thing that helps me work through the slump, is following my muse. The Muse is a fickle mistress, indeed, but she tends to lead you to where you need to be. Following your muse, or your bliss will inevitably lead you to good things (sometimes through some “opportunities for growth”.)

For instance, my muse-path today took me from looking at the winter weather advisory (my local temp is -2 with a -17 wind chill) to clicking on an add about renewable energy, to researching consumer solar and wind power products for the home, to discovering a cool online store with many solar power chargers, for things like cell phones, iPods & even laptops. To, of course, writing this article about following your muse when in the midst of writer’s block.

When you find yourself in the throes of writer’s block, take a look at an rss feed, search for a term you’ve always wanted to know about, just follow your curiosity, follow your bliss, follow your muse down the rabbit hole, and at some point inspiration will take hold.

And then - write.

While doing some routine maintenance on Center of Muse, I found a bunch of other code needing to be tweaked. So as inconvenient as it may have been to anyone who came looking to read some prose about biz - it was time, and I was here.

Meanwhile - I was trying to take care of all of this internally on GoDaddy - where this site is hosted for a few more days yet. I will be moving it over to AN Hosting, with my other websites. GoDaddy frustrates me, in the hosting department and internal site workings department.

The File Manager, FTP Client, MySQL area all kept timing out, so I would have to restart. Several times I was logged out of the site entirely (not my doing) while I was actively working inside GD & being quite active. And this is without getting the little warning pop up message.

Of course, I finally resorted to trusty FileZilla, but for a quick thing here or there, a host’s internal features should be able to do the trick.

After spending a few months comparing my two hosting sites, I’m MUCH happier with my switch to AN Hosting. I have not experienced down time. I have not been unduly disconnected from the control panel. I HAVE received top-notch service from customer support and tech support, and all at a price that BEATS GoDaddy.

GoDaddy will remain my Big Poppa for registrations, and domain management. But I’m happily transitioning the remaining websites I own to AN Hosting.