The Quarantine Creativity Shortage
When the world stops turning it should come as no surprise that there may be a shortage of some things we tend to take for granted on a non-global pandemic year. As a pre-COVID bread baker and breakfast burrito specialist, the shortage of flour and dry black beans was disappointing but wasn't as unexpected as the lull in creative inspiration. Everyone is out there with all of this free time to seize and fulfill some creative dream, but alas, motivation and inspiration hide inside the walls like a scared farm cat in an unfinished home. I was recently reflecting on a conversation with a friend about how we seem to write our best songs when we should be doing something else entirely. Maybe it's because...