The other thing I’ve realized is that there are aspects to my work that are purely stylistic, and I need to stop worrying about how my style is different. When I embrace my own approach instead, my ability to express the concepts flows out much more naturally. Imagine that: I work better when I omit the self-doubt phase! Whodathunkit!

Anyways, thanks for this, and for the “creative block” article that led me here.

@ Philip – Yep, very easy to get glued to the desk/computer when a stroll in the sunshine would be more productive.

@ Jaqueline – “NEXT!” Love it!

@ Runbei – Glad I’m not the only one in perpetual debugging mode.

@ Stacey @ Ali – Yes, we definitely get stuck when we take things personally and identify with the problem. (Maybe I should include that in this series…)

@ Karen – Better to annoy a few people than produce something totally inoffensive. I recently read a poem at a workshop and one of my favourite comments was “This should have a health warning, like a strobe light, the rhythm made me feel sick!”

@ Gabriel – “but I know where to find that answer”. I’ve been saying that for years, the internet is now making me feel vindicated.

@ Simon – One of my favourite quotes is from the Zen master Katagiri Roshi, “You have to say something,” the implication being even though it will inevitably be ‘wrong’.

@ Chris – Thanks, v interesting snippet. I must ‘do’ Picasso on Lateral Action one day…

@ Tracy – My pleasure! Yep, this is all practice too…

Will try the suggestions listed as well as Picasso’s (thanks Chris!). Perhaps I can use a tool that lawyers and doctors use: call my business a ‘practice’. I’m never quite sure I’m getting it right anyway, it’s all just practice!

Thank you Mark for all you do!!