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Re: What do YOU do when creativity dries up?
'Sing loud and bad!' I love it!
As a painter, I became painfully aware of the hindrance of too much technique. Can you get the idea finished before the paint dries? If not, compromise. Simplify technique to get a more complete working of the concept outside of your mind faster (before neuroses kick in and overthinking becomes one's undoing.)
With practice, a player can find a balance between schooled/refined technique and completeness of a concept. Then, you can move on to something else because the IMPORTANT part happened- the art EXISTS.
Even if crippled by poor technique, it EXISTS. If something else becomes evident upon reconsideration of the work- consider the first work a study, then revisit the theme. But past the third time(usually- consider action> reaction> reaction/ refinement/ etc.) there is a point of diminishing return of effort, and more importantly- TIME.
