a muse comes a calling

My desire to write, my need to write often doesn't align with my need to produce writing. I can traipse thru the day and find 100 things to write about or write down, but Heaven help me when I am actually on a deadline. Where is my muse? Is she out having a pot of tea with friends? Pounding a few down at the local pub? Running down the beach with my dog Rosco? (wait--is this me I am talking about or the muse?!) Anyway, I suspect--actually, I KNOW I am in good company on this topic...there are plenty of other wandering muses, slightly out of cell range when called by their scribes. Still I would love the code to crack the writer's block that sits with me at deadline time. The power of writing through the pain is not always as time efficient as I would like it to be!! Any thoughts?