Inspiration

I’ve been through an extended creative “dry spell” for the last several months. You artists and writers out there know the feeling. The loss of inspiration or motivation to create is at best tortuous; when you lose both it is devastating.

Inspiration usually motivates us to create, yet motivation can only prepare us for inspiration. We can create solely through motivation, but without inspiration the results are, well, uninspired! Knowing that Inspiration comes and goes, an artist of any sort keeps up a daily creative practice to be “ready” when she visits. My problem was that I had given up on my daily regimen.

As a musician, specifically a blues musician, I often associate the creative process with a certain degree of magic and mysticism. A daily artistic practice allows me to tap into this power. Without it, I had lost my mojo. It doesn’t matter how or what happened to bring this about, it happens to all “creative types” sooner or later, one way or another.

So, how to “get my mojo working?”  Read More on Scott’s Blog…