Living in a desert

[journeysbeguine]

My creativity seems to have all but dried up. It's so hard to make anything come out that isn't strictly informational. This is hurting my prose, and my poetry, but most of all, my music. I don't know why either. Am I so stressed that I can't convey it in a creative manor? Is my mind so tired from surviving that I can't create anything new? I don't

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[theycallmeblue]

I go through periods like that all the time: but the important part is, they're just periods. I will go months hardly doing anything creative at all, and then suddenly it all just explodes out in the matter of a few days or weeks. Sometimes your brain has to rest, give time for ideas to take root,germinate, before you can do anything. Or maybe even you just need to look at things differently- find new meaning. Haha, remember Kiki's Delivery Service, when she loses the ability to fly, and talks to her artist friend? :P I mean, aside from still trying to survive, everything as far as I know is mostly like you want it to be. You have a job, a boyfriend, maybe not an apartment for long, but how do you write about that? When everything's too perfect, what is there to express?

I don't think you have anything to worry about. It'll come back. While you're waiting, just listen to music and stuff. Maybe even go to an art museum or something, or read books, or, like you said, work with clay. See if anything inspires you.