This is a concise thought expressed clearly. I fully agree that much of the work of being creative happens in silence, or more specifically, in a state of flow, in which all of the creator’s faculties and energies are directed toward the manifestation of intent. It’s a rare state even for prolific creators.

Sure there’s other work to be done, all the administration and logistics of adapting the product to the need, all the business aspects, the mechanical, what have you. But the springing to life of an idea into reality… there’s a species of this that seems to emerge in isolation.

For some, and I count myself among this group, the challenge that comes next is in releasing this ore of an idea to its audience or its destination. As soon as you publish it, it’s no longer under your control. People make what they will of it. It may not be what you intended them to make of it. But you can no longer help it. It’s everyone else’s product now.

So you can protect it and hold on to it and keep it in its isolation to maintain its reflection of the conditions that created it, or you can release it, and let it find a life of its own. Sometimes that’s scary and sometimes that’s exhilarating. Whatever it is, the moment of silence between it and its creator is something only the creator will have experienced.