I have enough ideas in my Google Drive to create for three lifetimes. So why does every good one make me think, Fuck, I’m running out of time?
We brushed up against this in our scarcity conversation on Becoming Wealth, and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. What happens when you feel completely tapped into your creativity and somehow believe you have to act on every idea before the spark disappears or somebody else gets there first?
In this episode, I tell you about the 13-book fiction series I tucked away until a walk along the bay brought the whole thing into focus, the nonfiction manuscript I kept circling even after I had the framework, and the night I told my husband to go park the car and ended up holding my daughter at midnight in his Led Zeppelin shirt.
Some ideas have gotten clearer while I’ve been off living my life. I’ve also called it “timing” when I was scared to write the thing I knew I wanted to say. And sometimes the next step becomes obvious and I move fast. I’m still learning what each of those feels like from the inside.
In this episode
The pressure to make something the minute inspiration hits
What I make of it when two people independently land on a similar idea
How the fiction series took shape while I was working on other things
What rereading an old chapter revealed about how much permission I was still asking for
What changes when I trust I’ll still have access to my creativity tomorrow
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