"I am a believer that the muse exists, but she has to find you working. So many people wait to be inspired but that's not how inspiration works." - Kenneth Wajda
While you are waiting for inspiration to strike why don’t you do some work? Nothing is more inspiring than working and having all sorts of ideas bubble up because you are thinking and doing rather than daydreaming. Most of my creative output is related to completing a project; a blog entry, a single topic publication or the monthly publication of my Journal.
When I work on any of these projects, I need to create ideas and methods to convert the ideas to actual creative output. The number of ideas I create increases with the work I do. I recently updated my website and as I went about thinking of ways to make it more enticing for my audience I came up with multiple ideas for projects. Once I start writing, be it a statement for a project, or an introduction for the Journal, I find the writing becomes easier and I generate more ideas which generate more ideas and pretty soon I have a backlog of blog entries. When I start looking for images for a Journal length project, I also come up with single images for the Daily Photograph Blog and threads for projects than span time and place.
Once you start working, the Muses just might find you.
I think the Muses were looking in the wrong part of the Jebediah Smith State Park. I just couldn’t get the hang of the place. It was all tight, jammed together and very vertical. I tried working at a smaller scale but that didn’t seem to work. I guess I was just too busy to hear what the Muses had to say to me.
Life is never perfect.
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