Amused by a Moving Target

I just walked out of a lecture/concert by Brenn Hill. He's a cowboy singing cowboy songs. I went to this lecture/concert out of duty for my Creative Writing class (where we actually have done more reading than we have writing. Hopefully this will soon change.) I forgot how much I'm captivated by free, live music. Brenn was telling the audience about how he just wanted to be a cowboy and he made a career out of it and he loves music and he loves his family and his son had a brain tumor but now he's okay and how we are all going to encounter a lot of opposition in life. "They'll tell you that you need to compromise yourself or change to meet the idea of the masses. You should know it doesn't matter what anyone tells you. If you have desire and you sacrifice and do the work and have conviction for personal values they you will be successful."

That was good for me to hear. Especially today when I'm wondering what I'm going to do when I graduate and how long I want to have seasonal, eccentric jobs and when I want to commit to a stable career. But then he said something that pricked me a bit. "Hopefully your muse is a moving target."
The word "muse", just like "facebook" or "google" or "lick", can be both a verb and a noun. As a verb it means to ponder silently about something. As a noun:

Muse[myooz]

–noun

1. Classical Mythology .

a. any of a number of sister goddesses, originally given as Aoede (song), Melete (meditation), and Mneme (memory), but latterly and more commonly as the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne who presided over various arts: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (lyric poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (religious music), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy); identified by the Romans with the Camenae.

b. any goddess presiding over a particular art.

2. ( sometimes lowercase ) the goddess or the power regarded as inspiring a poet, artist, thinker, or the like.

3. ( lowercase ) the genius or powers characteristic of a poet.

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Origin:
1350–1400; ME Muse < MF < L Mūsa < Gk Moûsa


So a muse could be anything that amuses your creative self.

• a muse
• amuse

I can't help but muse on how the two are connected.

"Hopefully your muse is a moving target."

What is my muse? Do I have more than one? Is it moving? How fast? Will I ever hit the target? Should I ever hit the target, or should it be one of those life-long pursuits? What's my mom's muse?

Do muses have deadlines?