Getting stuck

 I've been reading Cleese on creativity and thinking about preaching. 

It is interesting that he says that writing with Graham Chapman they would sometimes get frustrated when they might work for a morning or a day without coming up with anything really good. And yet they consistently found that by Friday night they had fifteen to eighteen minutes worth of good material. 

Cleese argues that getting discouraged is just a waste of time. The fallow periods (a bit like an empty fork returning to the plate) are just part of the process and we have to work through them and keep going. Normally good work happens if you persevere.