When things go wrong, sideways, and you feel lost – all creative flow goes out the window.
It’s one thing if creativity is a heavy part of your job – your livelihood depends on that flow existing to some extent – so you’ll need to put in the time.
But when you don’t have that dependency, it’s an ebb and flow and the hardest thing with any creative endeavor is to get started.
Show me someone who does creative work (drawing, coding, writing, speaking, etc, etc) and has never lost their flow?
It’s impossible.
Yeah, sit down at the chair and do the work, but those thoughts in the back of your head linger, they hold on tight, they don’t want to be ignored, and pushing them out becomes the real creative task.
When I think about it I come back to that old line – “Is the juice worth the squeeze?”.
Is what could come from it worth it?
Is it worth pushing through to get to the other side?
Are you willing to push through?
