Robert Zimmerman wrote: > >In a message dated 11/27/2002 1:14:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > >>No, I don't mean working on other things, unless those other things are > >>occupying only a small part of your thinking (for example, thinking > >>about the problem while driving down a long empty road would qualify as > >>working, but not reading a book about something unrelated). > > > >Let me add my two cents. For me creativity is a start stop thing. I work > >on a paper or a peer review etc. I wokr for a while (one or two hours) but > >then I get stuck. At some point over the next day or two I will know the > >solution to my problem. With long projects this stop and start stuff > >reaches a critical mass and then I can plow through till the end no matter > >how many hours it takes.
Sounds like working on my bathroom. Think, rethink, get information, get more information, think rethink... find out that nobody really wants to help you do your bathroom, not even when paid. Decide to do it yourself and decide on how you want your bathroom, without actually ripping out everything and start from scratch. Order tub and find toilet. When delivered, read installation leafelets. Go back to the shop to get all the stuf that wasn't supplied with it. Go back home. Study some more on how to place a tub and how to place a toilet. Go to the bathroom and start ripping things out. Place appliences in the bathroom. Have a rethink about where you want to put the stuff because it doesn't fit properly without a major rebuilt (which you were trying to avoid in the first place). Get some more stuff that wasn't in the manual but that you still need to finish the damn bathroom. Start installing the tub and puncture a water pipe. Full stop on Sunday evening. Break open the (concrete !!!) wall, find the leak and as a bonus some very nasty surprises (electric wiring on one side of the pipe and a wood beam on the other) that make it a hell of a job to do a 'legal' repair. Go to the shop, get stuff to repair the puncture and advice on how not to repair it. Spent two days repairing it. Reconsider on how you wanted to do the job, have a change of heart and find out you still need more stuff to finish the job you haven't even really started on...... Get desperate. Yes, at this point I'm as desperate as it sounds. I hope that tomorrow will be a better day. I have high hopes that we'll manage to do something creative and productive for once since we started this <insert plenty of nastyness here> project. Sonja :o) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
