# Everything needs time to gestate ![[Everything that is allowed to be still will be much better —Thich Nhat Hanh]] For the artist, there is no measuring with time.[^1] Let your ideas and your art gestate. The incubation phase leads to an illumination and later verification phase.[^3] Rest and daydreaming are important parts of the creative process. [[Technique and theory must become embodied]], and this is one way in which they become so. ![[Being an artist means ... ripening like the tree —Rainer Maria Rilke]] ![[They are like plants growing in winter —Richard Avedon]] Not every idea is ready to be developed. Save it for later. [[Keep a spark file]]. Create a pipeline for those ideas so they can eventually be developed and not forgotten.[^2] [[It is okay to not be ready to write about something]]. ![[And still it is not enough to have memories —Rainer Maria Rilke]] While it's gestating, you may discern whether to [[Hold off on sharing immediately]] or [[Share your work in progress]]. [Oliver Sacks on the Three Essential Elements of Creativity – The Marginalian](https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/11/09/oliver-sacks-the-river-of-consciousness-the-creative-self/) [^1]: [[Letters to a Young Poet]] pg. 24 [^2]: [5 Tricks to Never Run Out of Ideas Again](https://getpocket.com/explore/item/5-tricks-to-never-run-out-of-ideas-again?utm_source=pocket_mylist) [^3]: [[Mixing Audio—Concepts, Practices, and Tools]] pg. 61