I was thinking tonight about Neil Gaiman's "
Calliope" issue of Sandman.
The gist of the story is that a writer, running out of ideas, finds a way to imprison one of the Greek Muses of myth in order to start coming up with new ideas for his stories. Sounds like a great plan, until it turns out the muse in question is the former lover (and mother of the child of) Dream of the Endless...and he doesn't take kindly to mortals who imprison mystic beings.
Once Dream finds out what happens, he frees Calliope and curses the writer. The curse that the writer will never run out of brilliant ideas...but he won't have time or ability to actually turn them into coherent stories.
Sort of like Morrie over the past few years, I think.
