If you have an ability to make music (or at least have at times made something resembling what could be considered 'music') - and are not literally currently prevented from doing so by life stuff / illness / looking after someone who's ill etc. - can I recommend you just do it? Inspiration can be overemphasised and romanticised - but sometimes the most inspired material didn't "feel" very inspired in the moment. Much can come of sessions that felt dutiful, even mechanical; the inspired feeling can even be noise - lovely when there, but not always signaling anything long-term.

Either way, you'll have made something new that didn't exist before, rather than not have. Which is pretty amazing, when you think about it.

@Cognessence Hell yeah! Genuine Inspiration is great, but the doing of the thing actually fosters inspiration more than anything else, at least for me.

Habit is essential. Even when I'm spent or not feeling like I'm being original, just playing around is fun and can (but not always) lead to real creative progress.

@d01 @Cognessence
Right—for me, inspiration isn’t something that happens first on its own so I can start. It develops after I’ve been working for a while and things start to come together.

Just begin. Don’t wait for inspiration; inspiration is waiting for you.