Recently saw this observation about writing and thought it's something that extends to many creative pursuits
It's something that Michael Stavrou addresses in his book Mixing With Your Mind and he frames these as left and right brain activities.
While this metaphor doesn't do justice to the way our brains operate, it is a really insightful discussion for the proposal that creative people benefit from grouping likeminded tasks.
For example, if you're writing and in a state of flow, then the process can be disrupted by needing to open a dictionary and find the appropriate word.
Someone like Julia Cameron in her book The Artists Way, I think, would likely say to keep writing -- even if it's just repeating the word until the sense of flow returns.
That's the kind of recklessness one can indulge while writing a first draft, before returning at a later time with a more critical perspective to finesse those words with the rigor required for publication.
And I think there's a similar distraction from producing work when a person begins second-guessing what they should be doing, although that is likely more akin to Sartre's notion of "being for others".
