If you are a productive or successful creative person, can I ask: what's your secret?

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If you are creative (writing, music, art...or anything else involving creativity) and are very productive, or seen as someone with an amazing work ethic, how do you do it? Do you have good habits, or a strong routine, or a life that's somehow conducive to hard work in creative pursuits? What are the key things you've done or personal qualities (or strokes of luck!) that allow you to be productive or successful?

This might be a completely unhelpful answer but I think mine is just that I really enjoy doing creative things. I don't have a strong routine at all, or good habits when it comes to anything else, but I actively want to be productive often enough that it doesn't matter.

It's only possible because I live alone and don't have too many other responsibilities, besides a non-stressful job. I think if you were trying to work round a family etc you'd definitely need better organisation, and at times in my life when there's been more external stress it completely drains me of any motivation.

Oh also I wouldn't say I'm significantly 'successful', in that I couldn't make a career out my hobbies or anything. But I'm one of the more productive people I know and in general get most of the stuff done that I intend to do.

Watching desperately for advice! Instead of actually getting on with what I should be doing.
Almost certainly the answer is to throw iPhone in the river.

I guess I really enjoy it. It's not very fashionable to not be tortured but actually I love making what I make and I'm super happy with the results. So it's not angsty for me. It's a pleasure. I just do what I want.

Because it's so pleasurable, and I value that pleasure so much, I pay attention to when it's not working for me. I quit the industry and took a technical (but still creative) job to pay my bills and as a 'career'. I do that part time to give me time to make my art. It's not that I can't make money with my art, I can and I do, but I don't start from there. It makes a big difference to me.

This is something people find strange because they don't know why I would turn down the 'opportunities' I have. But I tried it and it turns out there's something I want more, and that's to make my stuff, exactly how I want. So I don't care what they think. I am satisfied.