IMHO creativity isn't really as conscious as people seem to think. I have had a handful of hyper productive songwriting sessions and by the end it always felt m

IMHO creativity isn't really as conscious as people seem to think. I have had a handful of hyper productive songwriting sessions and by the end it always felt more like I was the horse than the rider. Neither was anything made so much as it was found.[1] There are constraints and limits and rules: rhyme scheme, meter, key, chord progression, genre, structure, and whether or not those things will support the consistency and coherence of the content... that's barely scratching the surface. The "choices" and the "thinking" are highly constrained. Few things are going to work. It's often either "this way" or "wo, back it up". Even in something like Jazz there are still intricate rules at play and the true greats were eccentrics and/or taking loads of drugs in order to push the boundaries where they could. [1] And then that one time where I finally cracked the melody at 3am, only to realize in the morning that it was Neil Young's "Heart of Gold". Even my creation was not my creation!