anotheranon | motivation

In between bouts of getting cat meds/cleaning up cat messes over the weekend, I finally felt the impetus to start making stuff again. I'm not sure what's been holding me back; partly the $ situation, but I have to wonder if that isn't just an excuse for laziness, or a lack of inspiration.

I've seen the same thing in my writing over the past month - short, lackluster things that really aren't interesting, at least to me, and I have to wonder how interested readers are when the writer isn't. Interestingly, as my inspiration to sew has come back, so has my inspiration to write.

I hate falling into this rut of just "going through the motions" in my creative endeavors - after all, I do these things for FUN! And it's not as if I want to learn how to better force the words/stitches when I don't feel like it, I'd much rather learn to force the inspiration when it is absent.

I throw to my friends, because many of you are involved in creative pursuits - how do you keep the juices flowing, or kick start them when they've dried up?