How many times have you found a creative person hits a patch where they can do nothing wrong. Everything they touch is brilliant. Then they lose it. They can never get it back again. Everything becomes mediocre.
If you take a writer like DH Lawrence – The Rainbow, Sons and Lovers, Women in Love – then ……… a bunch of others …. then Lady Chatterly’s
A singer like Dylan – Bringing it all back home, Highway 61 & Blonde on Blonde – then Bob Dylan, Self Portrait and even New Morning.
What is going on?
Of course some get it back again for another flourish. That happened with Dylan. Others are consistent throughout.
I’m absolutely sure that as much effort went into writing ‘The boy in the bush’ as ‘Women in love’. One is brilliant the other dull.