So, what do you do when you have a difficult passage and you hit a plateau?
Do you feel the red of anger climb to your face? Do you bunch your hands in a fist? Do you smash your keyboard with said fist? Do you howl at the moon? Do you grow big claws? Do you become a werewolf?
All right, calm down, I’ll offer some insights on how to deal with it.
I used to write. A lot. I wrote 5 books in all. Let’s not dwell on it, this was another part of my life. Anyway, sometimes, just like any other writer, I would encounter the famous writer’s block. Since that was a fairly common thing in that occupation, I read up on it. As I found many different solutions to take care of the problem, none resonated with me more than what Asimov used to do. If one of his works was getting nowhere, he would simply go to another project. A way of sidetracking the land mine, if you will. Later on, once he would get stuck with that second project, or be done with it, he would go back to the first one and try his luck again.
Now, if I read you, my reader, correctly, I know what you’re thinking: “Oh, I see what Sol’s doing, he’s going to say that if you get stuck in one area of music you should go concentrate on another!”. Well, hold on there, Mr. Reader, you might be wrong, after all there is a reason why my blogs are so popular (I’ve got at least 3 regular readers now: my mum, my wife and my daughter). I might surprise you.
You’ll get to know the solution to this riddle in the next blog.
