Somewhere Between Waking & Sleeping
There are days that I feel like I'm faking it. Lately those days are outnumbering the genuinely creative. I need to remove the haze from the right side of my brain.
It's funny, creatives spend so much time learning the specifics of their craft but when it comes up to maintaining your creativity, you're entirely on your own. No one teaches you the way to keep up your thought processes, organize all the flotsam floating around your brain or what to do when that inspiration just isn't coming. I guess it's too personal an issue, and one I rarely hear many creative people even admit to. Here I am admitting that some days, I just don't know what's going on upstairs, I don't know how to turn it off and on like a faucet.
Once upon a time I started reading The Creative Habit: Learn It And Use It For Life by Twyla Tharp. Perhaps I should actually finish reading it.
Buy some: Saint Etienne, The Aluminum Group, Charlotte Gainsbourg