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RE: How You Break Out of Your Creative Silences?
My biggest issue is procrastination. I come up with song ideas, but keep putting off doing something with them. It is a sideline to my job and other activities, but I could make time for it if I really wanted to.
That's a big one too. I got a new job a little over a year ago, but it's a half hour away from my house and requires me to travel through morning rush-hour traffic.
Since I hate traffic and I'm at my most creative in the morning, I simply show up to the office three hours early, make coffee, and write my ass off until I start doing billable work for the company (assuming I don't have other work stuff that's more pressing to do before the day starts). That's been a small workaround for me this past year, but I'm about to eschew that and start going to the gym in the morning instead and simply put up with rush hour for awhile.
Changing up a routine usually helps me find a new stride in the creativity department.
I've gone from over 3 hours travelling for work each day to about an hour, so I should have more spare time, but it doesn't always feel like I do. Need to find some other excuse :)
Yeah, but having that extra two hours to mentally breathe a little more is pretty nice too. Finding the proper balance between the work life and the creative life is always tough, no matter the situation.