Cassie is a Muse, trying to help writers write their novels for NaNoWriMo during November. She needs to protect them from their evil Inner Editors.

NaNoWriMo: the home front

The war between the Inner Editors and Muses was still ongoing, with no end in sight. It's sad to say that the Inner Editors were winning, as every sentence written by possible new writers was marred with self-doubt and frantic editing and re-editing. The recent economic recession had left Cassie, a poor Muse, sorely neglected, as her former authors had decided that it made more sense for them to try and find work during November instead of attempting to flog the novels they had written during NaNoWriMo at the end of the month (and failing, because most of what they wrote was of poor quality).

Cassie didn't take rejection very well. She knew her authors missed the thrill of frantic novelling (and letting their personal lives suffer in the process), but, most importantly, she missed the Muse accolades she would get from them at the end of the month. "If it wasn't for my Muse, this novel would have never have been written" or "My Muse kept my evil Inner Editor at bay during the whole writing process, and for that I am unbelievably thankful."

If only there was some way she could get someone - anyone - to notice her again.