Surviving the Creative Doldrums
Hey everyone, I’ve got a piece up on The Rabbit Room this week about what to do when you’re in a creative slump:
If you plan to be a writer for any significant amount of time, you will inevitably hit a stage that I call the “creative doldrums.” Perhaps you’ve already been there. A day, then a week, then a month goes by, and you haven’t written anything. Not a word. There is nary a gust of wind in your artistic sails.
You might start to worry, then panic, then go into an existential tailspin over whether you were ever a creative person to begin with and whether you will ever have anything to say again.
You can read the full piece here.
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Thank you, Chris. I just read your piece at The Rabbit Room. As someone who finds I hardly have energy to squeeze creativity into the margins of my life, I found your concluding sentence very encouraging: "Remember in the end that it is not about how many poems we wrote or books we published, but whether we offered some small measure of truth and beauty to the world."