The Muse: Feast or Famine?

I've just seen Shad's post in a similar vein talking about having a hard time coming up with stuff which made me think a bit.

I'd lost any interest in trying to write music or lyrics over a year ago after some adjustment of my medication threw me into a wild spin, much of the time since then I've just been getting more deeply into the technical mechanics of making things happen with my DAW, like learning mixing and mastering techniques, patching, routing and sound design that kind of stuff. 

For me I don't see much point in trying write or perform when it ain't happening as it just leads to frustration, I've been playing long enough to know when it ain't happening and I'm in a comfortable position now where I don't have to turn up for a gig at x time and date, so I do tend to just break out into this secondary 'non-creative' type of learning or technique development instead, (sometimes even perhaps I will idle away my time here) as it is a vast subject and there is plenty of ground to cover if one wants to delve more deeply in all the aspects of music creation owning a DAW gives.

Over the last few weeks though my creative urge has returned from nowhere, pretty much every noise I'm hearing just now has potential for a tune or a rhythm and I'm sketching out little melodies, lyrics and progressions like there is no tomorrow, now I'm starting to think how am I ever gonna knock all this stuff into any kind of shape.

This has been compounded by the fact, that in some fit of pique I encouraged my partner have a go at singing on one of my songs, now all I can hear from that direction is her practising some vocal phrase or nagging me to do some more recording while I'm in the middle of trying to get something else down.  I'm not complaining, I'm just curious as there is so much music going on at Chez Bouy just now it is a joy,  and all the swatting up I've been doing is paying off in that I can get stuff committed into some usable form in very short order compared to a year ago.

What gets me though is why no middle ground?  It literally does seem to be either feast or famine.

(or is it?)

But this is where my fuel comes from...... honest...... really!.

Things have changed for us.

I use to practice guitar parts. I didn't know to do anything else
and there were others to do them anyway.

I have experienced the same thing without a known reason. I take no medication
nor have anything I can believe causes the creative downturn.

But taking advantage of the time and learning about other interests
is cool by me. One needs time to reflect and grow I think.

So maybe it's just perspective? Feast and famine work good together?
I think so.

Hi,
 
I know you's over there on the other side of the pond ... but you have an open invitation to come to the "Triangle Lake" ... check it out on the map and hit the aerial shot ... in Oregon.
 
A night of two in that place cures you of all the monkeeing crap in one's brain ... fast! ... and you can have some fun jumping in the water, or fishing for the little fish to eat for breakfast, like the kids do!
 
And if you get bored, we can take turns trying to get up on water skis! I would invite the rest of the CHB, but London seems to be more popular ... though certainly not as restful!
 
I'm of the opinion that the main reason why we get stuck, it is because we're duplicating ourselves too much and we're bored ... and the only way to get off that camel is to go do something else ... and stop for a while and ...