Bridging the Enthusiasm Gap

Ways to keep creating when the excitement wears off

We’ve all been there. We’re seized with an idea for something we want to create—a novel, a short story, a dance, a painting, a sculpture. In a frenzy of creative excitement, we make notes and sketches. We can see the thing whole as if it’s already made.

It’s right there. We can almost touch it…

But it isn’t, in fact, right there. It—this vision of art—doe…