A week into the new agency job, I’m having a great time doing creative things like concepting and brainstorming, but there’s still an afternoon slump where the ideas slow down. Even after all this time, I still have doubts that they’ll come back again the next morning, but I try not to worry and I think about this advice from Hem in A Moveable Feast:
I learned not to think about anything that I was writing from the time I stopped writing until I started again the next day. That way my subconscious would be working on it and at the same time I would be listening to other people and noticing everything, I hoped; learning, I hoped; and I would read so that I would not think about my work and make myself impotent to it.
Kim
June 4, 2014 @ 10:00 pm
they’ve.
dammit all anyway.
Kim
June 4, 2014 @ 9:59 pm
My best ideas always come later, after it’s been distilling through layers in my mind, like good vodka, distilled at least five times. It’s important to run ideas through the thing I like to call the “filter of sober sensibility” a.k.a. “friends with good taste.” Funny how often that is you, now that I think on it 😉
Karen
June 5, 2014 @ 8:57 am
Aw, I’m happy to be a filter, sober or not!