Editor’s note:
Inspiration is fleeting, I’ll give it that, but it’s easier to find if you exercise it like a muscle. Practice starting something, and you’ll find ideas start pouring out more easily, albeit sometimes at inopportune times. If you get into the habit of just starting something, you’ll start to see the wood for the trees pretty quick. If you start work at 9am, you’ll inevitably end up with something at the end of the day.
Sometimes, that ‘something’ is simply a load of ideas you’ve binned; but you’re still a few steps closer to having something great.
This can apply to anyone creative, in the music world it applies to people like songwriters especially, but the same goes for all musicians, producers and engineers. Waiting to write your next hit? Loop some simple drums and just start strummin’. Can’t decide between practicing guitar or working on your media kit? Flip a coin and just start one of them. Procrastinating re-wiring that patchbay? You know the drill.
What I’m really trying to say here is, if I can offer any advice, it’s this: get to work.