[BadassFractal]

I experience this 100% with writing music. I suspect most of it is around the need for your creation to be good, versus allowing it to be child-like play. If you're able to suspend the need to be good for a moment, you can start to experience again the joy of playing, inventing, letting go. Kenny Werner's book Effortless Mastery is a great reference for this.

[RHSman2]

Thanks for reference. I find music inexplicably easy unti it needs to be directed. If I am just exploring whatever has come out then it just follows a natural path. If I must write to a brief or to another’s melody then that is a different beast!