Other times, we wait for the images to return in the night, but they never come. When inspiration finally does come, it knocks us off our feet. Just recently, a song popped into my head and I decided to record a rough version of the song onto my cassette player. The next day I listened to the recording. The rough recording ended up being the basis for a song I finally recorded in the studio.
Creative moments come and go and they often seem so insignificant.
But hidden beneath the unstable melody, the shaky rhythm, and the wrong notes, lies a revelation. There are opportunities to find creative expression in the least likely places. Stumbling on ideas by mistake. Many of the great inventions of the world were created by mistake. The inventor intended to find one thing, but discovered another.