Rekindling the Creative Spark

Do you ever just take a second to let your creative spark fly? I'm not talking about fully separated from surroundings day dreaming, but do you ever just sit down at the computer, the canvas, or in front of an instrument, and just let your ideas come to fruition in front of you? Do your designs tend to fall flat on the paper, or are they everything you expected them to be, maybe even more? Did you end up with a finished product that you didn't expect to have when you began? I am fully against the stifling of an individual's creativity. I find that too often we tend to get stuck in the same rut doing the same things over and over again, almost as if our artwork is coming off the assembly line at a factory or if it's regular day to day process like at your job. We've settled into a molded routine, and it's hard to break out from it and do something new fun and exciting. As artists, musicians, authors, and even gamers, we must let our creative jui...