Creative momentum can suddenly shift to the next project mid-transit

Evidence

I am bowling along in a cab, on my way to a clinic to have a blood test, and my mind starts moving toward the later Henry VIII, and his poor health, and I wonder what it was like for his advisers to roll in for the morning strategy meeting and find him surrounded by his doctors. I take out my notebook and write: “Basin of blood. Urine flask. Holy Grail?” — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1097

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Deliberate sideways projects let writers sidestep a blocked main work — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 42; Technology develops a self-sustaining momentum beyond its original drivers — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 393

Broader Connections

• Deliberate sideways projects let writers sidestep a blocked main work #qualifies (0.75) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 42
• Technology develops a self-sustaining momentum beyond its original drivers #complicates (0.72) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 393