Being creative is always hard. But what makes it hard can change over time. Here are some examples from my own arranging/composing experience.
What was hard
- Choosing a song to arrange or a text to set.
- Having a creative idea on how to arrange it.
- Finding a solution to a musical problem.
- Sloooowly notating it correctly.
- Finding a group to sing it well.
What is hard
- Finding time to get to my studio and write.
- Having a novel idea on how to set something.
- Choosing the right solution from the possibilities I see.
- Paring my writing back to its simplest and purest form.
When I find solutions to those challenges, other ones will crop up. The secret is that creativity never gets easy, it just gets familiar; and the hardness becomes a friend rather than a roadblock.