Sometimes the very busyness of my life can actually help the creative process.
I wrote a couple phrases of a new work Monday morning. By the end of the day, I didn’t remember it.
Maybe that sounds like a bad thing, but in my book it’s excellent. The next time I sat down in my studio to work, I was able to listen to it – and assess it – with fresh ears. Often it can take me days or weeks to stop feeling so close to my creative output that I can’t really assess it. I need distance, and distance requires time.
Unless it’s accomplished by busyness. So if you’re in a hurry to make progress on your creative project, get busy enough that you can take steps closer together than usual. The only caveat: get too busy and you lose time to create at all!