Feeling Stuck Is Part of the Creative Process
Mihail Tregubov
If you’ve ever found yourself staring at a blank page, circling the same idea for weeks, or unable to move forward on a project, you know how uncomfortable it feels to be stuck. But here’s the truth: feeling stuck is not a failure. It’s actually correct.
Stuckness Is Normal
Being stuck is a natural and necessary part of the creative process. Every artist, writer, designer, and creative professional encounters it. Stuckness is not a sign that you’re unworthy, uninspired, or incapable—it’s simply part of how creativity works.
The problem isn’t the pause itself. The problem arises when you don’t know how to work with it.
Why Most Advice About Feeling Stuck Doesn’t Help
Too often, the advice around creative block is shallow: “Just push through.” “Take a walk.” “Wait for inspiration.” While well-meaning, this advice doesn’t address the deeper truth of what stuckness really is. That’s why it rarely works.
Stuckness isn’t an absence of ideas. It’s a threshold. It’s the fertile pause before something new begins to emerge. What you’re experiencing is not a dead end. It’s the edge of growth, a point where your current system or approach no longer supports the next layer of your creative work.
Reframing Creative Pauses
Creative pauses are not interruptions. They are part of the process itself. Stuckness is fertile ground rich with potential. There is delicious fruit in the pause if you know how to harvest it.
Instead of seeing stuckness as something to escape, consider it as a doorway. It is the moment before clarity, the soil in which your next idea, project, or innovation will take root.
How to Harvest the Pause
Working with stuckness means developing the tools and structures that allow you to recognize and trust this phase of the process. When you know how to harvest the pause, you can:
Reframe creative blocks as opportunities.
Access clarity on the other side of discomfort.
Build a sustainable creative process that supports growth rather than resists it.
Innovate with confidence instead of spiraling in frustration.
The Fertility of Stuckness
Feeling stuck doesn’t mean you’re failing, you’re just standing on the edge of something new. When you know how to meet that edge with curiosity and structure, you stop fearing the pause and start using it as fuel.
The creative process isn’t about avoiding stuckness. It’s about learning how to harness it.
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