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I’ve known artists who insist on the importance of blocking off a daily time for creative work. I’ve known others who force themselves to come up with a specific amount of work – pages, minutes, inches – each day before they will allow themselves to call it quits. Still others wait around for an idea to come, preferring not to exert themselves on anything short of the highest level of inspiration.
And then there are the many for whom creative time isn’t at the top of the list of daily priorities, the ones who squeeze their work into the crevices between job, family, etc.
Which one are you? Do you wait for the muse to visit, or do you make a regular appointment? Do you think one approach is inherently superior, or does it all depend on individual preference? And do you think the different approaches might lead to different kinds of music?
posted by Lawrence Dillon
12:13 PM
