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.
they’ve.
dammit all anyway.
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 😉
Aw, I’m happy to be a filter, sober or not!