user experience
Thalia shook her shakes and flicked her fingers. “Preeeehhhhhsent — We got ahhh preeeeeehhhhhhsent!”
“Excellent customer care.” The wheels in Nia’s head spun ‘round and ‘round.
“How generous of Spotify to send us a year-in-review gift…” Calliope read their musical-listener-package aloud, “The Time Traveler… You’re like a musical time traveler, a sonic historian. You seek out music that’s new to you, regardless of whether it’s new to the rest of the world… E-T-V-U… Exploration, Timelessness, Variety, Uniqueness. Hmmmm… This is really helpful! The description extends beyond our musical taste… It sums up the essence of our love letters!”
Words from Typist:
It has come to my attention that the muse’s personalities can be a little confusing to some — especially new readers? You might have noticed that I’ve started sharing their dialogue blocks in the same order every day: Thalia 1st, Urania 2nd, Calliope 3rd.
I’ve also tried to give them their own distinct voices:
Thalia — sing/song with lots of exclamation points and em (—) dashes
Urania — short and pithy
Calliope — slow, contemplative, thoughtful, and ellipses (…)
I intend to review the 3musesmerge About page, offering clear character outlines there. That said, from my personal Substack reader behavior, I’m aware some of us never visit the About pages.
My highest goal with 3mm is to be of service to its readers. I welcome your thoughts in comments and/or email replies. I know my 3mm family will be kind and thoughtful with constructive comments. Thanks for being YOU!
I offer three questions for your consideration:
Are the muse’s personalities clear to you? (yes/no)
Do you find their order of appearance, speech cues, and descriptions of their actions helpful? (yes/no — examples?)
Do you have any growth suggestions for us? (long answer — How can we do better? Can you offer examples of reference… material from other sources?)
My fellow timeless explorers, appreciators of variety and uniqueness, I am so grateful you are here. ❤️💜💚
You might recall I participated in an Akimbo Creative’s workshop a couple of years ago? Scott Perry, who was the head coach, is looking to offer a 7-minute, 3-step approach for making better decisions based on a Marcus Aurelius quote about the three disciplines of stoicism. FREE!!! I’ve raised my hand to participate. You can give Scott a 🖐🏻 raised hand here if you’re interested in making better decisions.
(Who isn’t?)
Some reply is surely in order before another day passes! Yep; I read this post yesterday but time happened. Not timeless from what I can tell...
First the questions you posed:
° muse personalities clear? Yes
° Order, speech, actions? No. Yes. Yes. (I’m apparently in my Nia space this morning!)
°Growth suggestions? Enroll Tal in a debate training class. 🙃
In fairness, I should sing Billy Joel’s famous lyric to her: “I love you just the way you are.” On the broader question, my honest self has to note the remarkably fluid transformation that characterizes your evolution! By some inherrant wisdom, you seem to have sought new means of expression for 3mm, kept the keepers and moved on from what wasn’t a good fit. While not being formulaic.
I can’t name one person that starts assembling a jigsaw puzzle in the middle of the scene! So allegorically you spotted border pieces to frame your aspirations and have intelligently/spontaneously continued the puzzle! Better still, I see your actions as one who didn’t get a box with a picture of the scene. Rather, relying on your intuition for what goes where!
“Don’t go trying, some new fashion,
Don’t change the color of your hair.
You’ll always have my unspoken passion,
Although I might not seem to care.”
More Billy Joel. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. 😁
“My fellow timeless explorers, appreciators of variety and uniqueness, I am so grateful you are here. ❤️💜💚” ~Typist
Hmmm? 🤔
Timeless explorer?
Wow, I never really thought of myself as a timeless explorer before… What a unique gift to be awarded this title!
Mnemo had to know what was out there…She’s insatiably curious and ever inquisitive. She keeps me on my toes!
It appears the timeless explorer at the link below never managed to escape the bonds of the harbor. I wonder how many other explorers are prisoners of their own making?
https://www.timelessexplorer.com/
Next I found some “Timeless Truths.”
https://medium.com/swlh/7-timeless-truths-that-will-make-you-rethink-your-approach-to-life-6e90d763693f
It’s hard to say where else we might have traveled if I hadn’t experienced the “squirrel.”
Anyway, I am an appreciator of variety, uniqueness, and especially gratitude so I think I’ll stick around a bit… 😉