Surviving Your Creative Desert

I’m in the middle of a creative dessert — desperately clawing my way out of its sandy demise.

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For months, I’ve left a short story of mine unfinished. Blog posts, my book, work, and family outrank regarding my focus. I can’t seem to allow myself to choose the unproductive over the productive.

I can’t seem to let myself be an artist.

Everything I do is calculated. Strategic. I’ve stopped making things for the sake of making things. I sought after a mirage. Now the mirage is gone, I’m stranded in the creative desert. I’m thirsty.

I sought after a mirage. Now the mirage is gone, I’m stranded in the creative desert. (Click To Tweet)

What is a creative desert?

A creative desert is a struggle to be creative. Typically it means struggling to create any kind of output. A lack of inspiration from your muse, for example.

Or it could be my case: struggling to be creative over practical.

One of my pillars in my Millennial Manifesto is CREATE. I penned these words little over a year ago and have allowed them to slip away in recent months:

The age of…