It's very easy to delay the start of a project until conditions are "just right," or refrain from releasing work until it's "perfect." Sadly, that often means the creative output \u2013 song, poem, photo \u2013 is never shared at all. Singer\/songwriter Bjork counsels us to view the creative process more like a pipeline that needs always to flow if it is to remain open:<\/p>\n
Like, don\u2019t hold your breath for five or seven years and not release anything, and then you\u2019ve just got clogged up with way too much stuff…Maybe you\u2019ve gained some immaculate, perfect versions of some of the songs, but overall, I think there\u2019s more minus to that because of how you clog your own flow. You lose contact to the part of you, your subconscious, that\u2019s writing songs all the time, and the part of you that\u2019s showing it to the world. As much similarity between those two parts of you, I think, the better. That\u2019s more important, to sustain that flow, than to wait until things are perfect.<\/em><\/p>\n
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