It's just like that.

I struggle constantly to find the balance between need for inspiration and willingness to just buckle down and get it done. Not only in the creative process, either. When I'm inspired to clean my bathroom, I really enjoy doing it, the time taken flies by, and it is immensely satisfying. Sadly, I'm only really inspired to do it every couple of years, so I have to kind of do agonizing grumpy touch ups in-between.

I write this because I just had one of those A-HA! moments working on the lyrics for a song. (Not the "Take on Me" A-Ha. I WISH I had those kind of songwriting moments.) I'd been kind of kicking stuff around in my head for several days, as well as kicking myself in the ass for not just sitting down and getting the words written so I can hurry up and sing the demo. But I couldn't bring myself to sit down and do it. Suddenly, a twist on the original idea I had hit me and I couldn't help but get to work on it. In five minutes, I reworked the first verse and wrote the second (I've had the chorus done for ages). The end result is only about a million times better than where I had been heading with it before.

So, I guess what I learned today is to only ever do what I feel like doing.

Just kidding. I know that I might have never gotten to the point where these lyrics worked if I hadn't been rolling the ideas around in my head. I guess what I really learned is that rolling ideas around in your head counts as work.


Interesting, unrelated side note: Every single time I write a blog post, I have to go through and edit out my excessive use of the words "just" and "that." Actually, I've just changed the title so that this paragraph is no longer unrelated.

(See that last sentence? That's how they all are until I edit.)

And now for a random picture of what I look like today.