Creative Readiness

Against popular wisdom, don't take breaks to do nothing to jump-start creativity. You probably will have missed something floating through while at rest, and when you get back to the river of ideas, the ones you get might not be as good as the ones you missed. It's best to have the mind at-the-ready. If you're rested, there's no need to rest the mind. Just let it connect that way it wants to connect.

David Lynch's fragmented approach to creativity is very interesting. It's usually an accretion of disparate disconnected ideas that get thrown into the stew. This probably stems from his background as an abstract painter, where marks on the canvas are continually being "fixed" until they reach a resolution to the artist's eye. 

In this chat between Lynch and Naomi Watts about Mullholland Drive, he talked about the genesis of the "Silencio" scene: A singer came to the studio one day and sang a song in one take and he loved it, then he built a scene around it. This may confuse viewers as an abstract painting might, but it's an example of being awake to possibilities. It also may serve as proof of the benefits of TM.