I tend to be a creative guy, but I often hit peaks and valleys in my proliferation.
I'll go a month without writing a song or working on one of my fiction stories, and then one day it'll just hit me to start writing. It can be hugely productive sometimes, like the time I doubled one story from about 20 pages in Microsoft Word to 40 or so after 5 or 6 hour of writing. For the most part though, it takes away from my creation because I can go, as I said, a month and often longer between these spurts.
I'm pleased to say I'm currently standing atop the peak, and am dreading the statistically likely happenstance that I will trip on a rock and roll all the way back down into the valley, gaining layers like a human snowball, like in the cartoons. The deal with the title is that Sisyphus was a guy in Greek mythology who royally pissed off the gods, so they punished him by making him push a boulder up a hill, and then every time he got to the top, he would slip and it would roll back down. And he'd have to do it again, over and over and over again. Here's a wikipedia article about him.
Today, I wrote the crap out of a song in like 20 minutes, and that never happens. I even wrote some guitar for it! Which I never do, because I tend to stink at trying to fit any words and music together. I can write cool words, and cool riffs sometimes, but I rarely introduce them and try to set them up on a date like the mischevious mutual friend I am.
And I've been working also on my brainchild, that story mentioned above. Old-timey readers of my blog might remember that I once had sections of it posted here. But, all arrogance aside, I'm proud of its potential and don't want everyone being able to see it! If you'd like to read a draft so far and be one of my proofreaders, drop me a comment and I'm sure we can work something out. By that I mean I'll likely email it to you to read, if I know and/or trust you.
I'm really itching to get back to my writing of fiction, so I'm keeping it short this time.
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