By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:39:26 +0000

Sounds like binge and purge creativity. I go through these phases from time to time, though mine are more balanced and tend toward being a few days in, a few days out as opposed to a whole month or more in one direction. In my experience, the “down time” or the “in” phase is a time in which I let someone else exercise his/her creativity on my behalf, allowing the back of my mind to continue to work on projects that will surface during my creative or “out” phase. I often read books over a week or so, but I have found that it is easiest for me to enter an “in” phase when the rest of my schedule is upside down. Like now, for example, I am starting a rotating shift that I will be on for a week, and then I will return to my normal work schedule for a time. During the five days off before this new shift, I have finished two books, watched 20 or so hours of the History Channel, watched a dozen movies, and reread some fiction that I have been working on for ideas about where to go in the future. When I get back to a normal schedule, I will probably put down whatever book I am reading at the time and not pick it up again except for a few minutes in the evening before bed. I will also complete another chapter or so for one of my projects, and I will outline some items for future projects. I may reverse-engineer some schematics for HVAC control boards and other logic CCAs that haven’t been made in 20 years but are still in use and such as more time avails. I never know…but I understand

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