I awakened and arose at my usual 3:30am time this morning. And decided that I was NOT in an Email mood today. So I petted, poked and stroked my "pets" on Superpoke Pets, I played a little Lord of the Rings Online, I looked through my forums to see if anyone was crafting or doing anything of interest, and I searched for some stuff on-line, and even allowed myself to go back to sleep for 30 minutes. I finally decided that I had to post and handle my Email and pushed myself over the hump.
You know that hump. Every creative person has them. It's also called the "ick" factor. It's when the painting looks like a bunch of blobs of color and you can't see how they can possibly come together as something pretty. Or when every word chosen for a paragraph just seems wrong. Or when the key seems off for a piece of music you are composing, or the glazes just aren't working for your pottery. In other words, the "blah", "bleh" and/or "ick" factors. And since everything goes through this stage, the only thing to do is work your way through them. That's what I did today, and I'm one small bit stronger because I did.
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