HARVARD – Author Julian Padowicz will give a talk, “Waltzing with the Muse: One Author’s Take on the Creative Process,” at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 8 at the Harvard Diggins Library, 900 E. McKinley St.

Padowicz, a retired documentary filmmaker and award-winning memoirist and self-described “wannabe novelist” for most of his life, says he learned to manage his creative muse in the 25 years it took him to write his recently published first novel, the humorous romance/adventure, “Writer’s Block.”

Padowicz cites its sequel, “The Best Sunset in Venice,” as proof that his method works, because it took him less than a year to write this second novel.