Meditations on God

You cannot force creative ideas to come your way.

They arrive when they arrive.

And sometimes they do not arrive at all.

But this does not mean that you should simply wait until inspiration strikes to do creative work.

It is called work because you have to show up and you have to put forth the effort.

Creativity may not respond well to demands or ultimatums, but it does tend to respond to willingness.

This means that your best chance of being inspired is to start working on something creative.

You do not need to start with a great idea, or any idea at all for that matter, but you do have to start.

Not every project will be your best work.

In fact, most of your work will not be your best work.

You cannot get to your best work, however, unless you are willing to do terrible work.

All of the bad ideas lay the groundwork for the great ideas.

Do as much terrible work as you need to, have as many bad ideas as you have to, but just keep working.

Inspiration comes to those who work for it.