CREATIVITY is fickle at best. Its like fitness. Stop training and it gets harder to start again. There are a lot of times where we just can't be creative.
Our day to day lives can often be very counter creative and sadly there is little to do about that but taking time to do something we enjoy can not only help maintain this skill but also help us in our day to day working lives.

Inspiration is a bitch
It is never around when we need it and appears when it's not wanted (that great idea you had on the toilet or in the shower for example). The annoying thing is that a lot of people assume it appears all the time for those of us that work in the creative industries. The reality is far more boring. We turn up and do the work. If inspiration strikes great. If not, we rely on our experience to get us through the project.

Just Role with it.
The idea behind this image didn't come out of nowhere. In fact, it didn't come from me at all. Someone mentioned I should do an image like that and seeing an opportunity for a creative challenge I took it as a brief and would you believe it, not so much as a hint of inspiration hit me. Not one iota.
I used my experience. I knew one image wasn't going to cut it as it was nearly impossible to photograph anything in motion from a remote location (not behind the camera) was going to be near impossible so I didn't. This is four images in one.

Deadlines are good
It sounds like I am glutton for punishment but really, deadlines are great. I find that they focus the mind well and (as long as they are reasonable and sensible) they are highly motivating too! One of the best aspects behind a good deadline is its ability to force you to stop. It prevents a project from growing arms and legs and trashing your workflow with endless re-writes or reshoot in order to get that perfect image or paragraph. Perfect is impossible. Perfect is what crappy managers who don't understand what they want. Done is the currency of the productive. Done means progress. Done means shipped.

This blog is a great example!
It really is. Don't look at me like that.... I mean, it's not a great blog. There will be more articulate and more capable writers out there than me talking about this very subject but this blog was conceived, planned and executed with the understanding that inspiration will leave me high and dry and that it will have to be finished anyway. So here it is. Just me doing the work.

What about you, are you waiting for the "perfect" time. Maybe re-writing your notes for the "perfect" plan. It's no going to come. Start anyway.

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