The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don’t wait for her. Start alone.

You are not creative and then create something, you become creative by working on something, creativity is a byproduct of work.

This reminds me that a few weeks I was stuck on a design problem. So I did what I always do: I kept slamming my head into the wall, over and over again and made fifty iterations and tried every bad idea possible. Then—after weeks of slamming—it all clicked. I found a creative (maybe innovative!) way of solving this particular problem and felt a huge wave of relief. But, after I figured it all out, I realized that I never would’ve had this idea if I had just waited for it.