i know, it's been a while. i know. i don't know if i can explain it, but i got the strangest sense of stagefright -- just with this site. here we were, talking about inspiration and creativity and getting things done, and all i could do was watch the same words pop up on the screen. i would click over to my text editor, type a few sentences and backspace it clean again. it wasn't that i was at a loss for words, really. i just didn't know how to proceed.
i still don't, but i missed this and i could not let myself let it go.
hi.
the past month i've been grappling with a case of i-bit-more-than-i-can-chew. there's that spell that i think artists of any kind go through: a drought, a block, a void of any creativity. but there's also that burst of creativity, an attack of intense inspiration and the desire to do everything at once. in both cases, the outcome can be a paralysis of sorts, an inability to move forward or accomplish anything. when this happens to me, i just have to let it go. i have to do everything else. otherwise, my head feels like it's going to implode.
after doing a lot of nothing, and then sitting down and making a list of priorities, i feel i've got a better grasp of the things i want and need to do.
and i'm here, now, ready to talk some more. ready for some big questions and deep answers. are you still with me?
and thus wrote christine on 4/12/2001. +
