It's so frustrating when you have creative impulses but you're not in the position to act upon them. Like, fragments of song lyrics suddenly jumping into my mind, or the desire to write all day, or a sudden urge to draw. I'm at work, and so must work, and know that by the time I get home the energy and enthusiasm for getting stuck into something creative will have waned. I try to jot things down so I don't forget them, but still...
Does this happen to you? How do you deal with it?
All the time!
ReplyDeleteWhat do I do? Push it down, down, down until its but a sad, distant memory. ;)
Have you tried a big bowl of strawberry ice cream?
ReplyDeleteI keep a blank notebook (purpose-bought - more flexible than lined or a *.txt file) next to my computer, and jot things down. The more I work, the more productive my brain gets, and I figure if I shut one down the other will suffer, so this is the best way to deal with it - getting them out of my head and onto paper. At the end of the day or week I'll rip the pages off and take them home. Usually the ideas come in batches so they get shoved in with the rest of that project and referred to as I go.
ReplyDeletesounds like something has to go.
ReplyDeletequit work.
(does that help?)
(I jot down ideas too.)