Inspiration has expiration. (Episode 260)
“Inspiration has expiration.”
I was recently on a podcast and I said that sentence. (Yes, I am quoting myself)
But my point with that quote (and this post) was to send out a reminder that when inspiration fades, so too does the creative energy.
I said it as a reflection about how I, as I was writing my latest book, had noticed that texts that I wrote JUST after I had finished an interview were much better than the texts I wrote based on interviews I had done days, weeks, or even months earlier.
The texts I wrote while I was still high on inspiration from the interview had more edge, had more emotions. They were just better.
It made me make a promise to myself to never again go to sleep if I still had notes from an interview that had not yet been turned into a text.
To never let the creative inspiration from an interview expire before I have turned it into a meaningful text. To write while my mind is still in the sun, so to speak.
What are you doing to make sure your creative process harnesses inspiration to its fullest?
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Aug