I have found that the times I felt I had no more creative juices left in my brain, when the day had left me spent and worn out, if I just made myself write with the goal of a mere five minutes, I'd find the words flowing and the minutes melting away unnoticed until when I finally look up I've written something that surprised me and may even be some of the best stuff in the book!
YES! I'm writing a lot at the end of the day now. And I think there's something to being so tired that you can't stop your subconscious from being the genius it can be.
I remember a friend once telling me that he equated "I don't feel inspired" to "I don't feel like doing that thing", like it was matter of being lazy. I explained that it was rather a matter of being out of ideas, which he accepted. But I guess it could be lazy to wait for inspiration rather than being more proactive.
It's tough. Definitely I feel drained sometimes. But you know, you show up and you try, and more goo stuff happens. I'm not saying there's a 1:1 relationship between effort and inspiration, but they ARE related. The more I work, the more excited I get.
I suppose there's the risk of things becoming 'forced' though? I got the impression that for new Bond films, they've had a lot of cool ideas for the initial one in a batch, but when the second and third one has to be released with just a year in between, they end up with significantly less cool and fresh ideas, since the first one had several years to accumulate cool ideas. I remember Golden Eye being quite awesome, but the rest of the Pierce Brosnan Bond movies weren't very good.
But that's less about inspiration and more about... crop rotation of ideas?
This was a very amusing and colourful way to illustrate the issue of inspiration! I enjoyed this quite a bit.
I have found that the times I felt I had no more creative juices left in my brain, when the day had left me spent and worn out, if I just made myself write with the goal of a mere five minutes, I'd find the words flowing and the minutes melting away unnoticed until when I finally look up I've written something that surprised me and may even be some of the best stuff in the book!
YES! I'm writing a lot at the end of the day now. And I think there's something to being so tired that you can't stop your subconscious from being the genius it can be.
I remember a friend once telling me that he equated "I don't feel inspired" to "I don't feel like doing that thing", like it was matter of being lazy. I explained that it was rather a matter of being out of ideas, which he accepted. But I guess it could be lazy to wait for inspiration rather than being more proactive.
It's tough. Definitely I feel drained sometimes. But you know, you show up and you try, and more goo stuff happens. I'm not saying there's a 1:1 relationship between effort and inspiration, but they ARE related. The more I work, the more excited I get.
I suppose there's the risk of things becoming 'forced' though? I got the impression that for new Bond films, they've had a lot of cool ideas for the initial one in a batch, but when the second and third one has to be released with just a year in between, they end up with significantly less cool and fresh ideas, since the first one had several years to accumulate cool ideas. I remember Golden Eye being quite awesome, but the rest of the Pierce Brosnan Bond movies weren't very good.
But that's less about inspiration and more about... crop rotation of ideas?