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puppetmakerSometime I feel like I chase my muse around the house and she stops at points that will distract from my pursuit of my goal. There are days that she hides very cleverly in my head and blows raspberries at me when I go to grab her. And other days she sits around sipping whatever muses sip to unwind and dares me to catch her because she is right there and not going to move but I have other things that need to be done so she knows that she is safe.
We call the lack of an idea or the next step in an idea being blocked. I never lack ideas in fact I have too many running around in my head that I know that I will never get them all done in my life time. A number are shelved because they need a skill set that I don’t have or haven’t mastered yet. But I have enough to work on that I want to make in this world.
The process from idea to product can be a difficult one. Getting the vision in one’s head to the actual working world can be a challenge. This part of the process is where I wish I didn’t have negative drawing ability. I can draft something to show what I need to have built but that’s about it. My skill seems to be bringing my ideas out in 3-D rather than 2-D.
And then there are days that I pull out the clay and just can’t get the shape in my head to come out in the clay. I end up doing and redoing more times than I care count. At some point I realize that the character in my hands is not going to be the one in my head so I put that idea in the box and start to play with what I have in front of me to see where it is going. Sometimes I like it better than the original idea and other times I just go with the flow on it. I have a box of things that might never get finished or will be finished when I am in a crunch. I am not entirely happy with them but there is something there for me to work with.
It can be frustrating to say the least but I know that eventually my muse will finished sipping her fine beverage and get off her toadstool and help me. I just need to give her the time that she needs to revive herself so she can help me.
I have learned over the years that when push comes to shove, there is no time to get blocked. You just keep moving forward and get done what you can get done because you are on a deadline. Sometimes the muse cooperates and other times you just go on the skills you know you have and fake your way through a project and hope that she pops up later to see how you did.
I am grateful for muses that hang around.
We call the lack of an idea or the next step in an idea being blocked. I never lack ideas in fact I have too many running around in my head that I know that I will never get them all done in my life time. A number are shelved because they need a skill set that I don’t have or haven’t mastered yet. But I have enough to work on that I want to make in this world.
The process from idea to product can be a difficult one. Getting the vision in one’s head to the actual working world can be a challenge. This part of the process is where I wish I didn’t have negative drawing ability. I can draft something to show what I need to have built but that’s about it. My skill seems to be bringing my ideas out in 3-D rather than 2-D.
And then there are days that I pull out the clay and just can’t get the shape in my head to come out in the clay. I end up doing and redoing more times than I care count. At some point I realize that the character in my hands is not going to be the one in my head so I put that idea in the box and start to play with what I have in front of me to see where it is going. Sometimes I like it better than the original idea and other times I just go with the flow on it. I have a box of things that might never get finished or will be finished when I am in a crunch. I am not entirely happy with them but there is something there for me to work with.
It can be frustrating to say the least but I know that eventually my muse will finished sipping her fine beverage and get off her toadstool and help me. I just need to give her the time that she needs to revive herself so she can help me.
I have learned over the years that when push comes to shove, there is no time to get blocked. You just keep moving forward and get done what you can get done because you are on a deadline. Sometimes the muse cooperates and other times you just go on the skills you know you have and fake your way through a project and hope that she pops up later to see how you did.
I am grateful for muses that hang around.
