Time Alone in the Honeymoon Suite

The Need to Love, Adore, Nurture, Romanticize Ideas Before Bringing Them Into Physical Reality

Somewhere off the main boulevard of Imagination—writers, artists, and other creators will find the Honeymoon Suite.

The Honeymoon Suite is as real a place as the World of Imagination. This suite is a creative hub where ideas, characters, concepts, and more go to sleep over—cozy in a plush homestead, a protective reservoir free of conflicts, disappointments—where ideation remains unmarred, unrivaled, and dreamy.

When smitten with a character, image, concept, or the world’s best new rock opera—I strongly believe we must dispatch these discoveries to the Honeymoon Suite for a period of time first before attempting to bring them into Physical Reality. It’s during this period of time—which in my experience can last anywhere from a week to three or four months—where we, as creators, leisurely fall in love with its inhabitants. We safely house our ideations in all their perfection; we allow them to exist without criticism and praise them as ripe with great potential.

Carol Channing once said, “Any act of creation is initially driven by love.” I’d go so far as to say any act of creation without love is barren. And creative love takes time. Which is why rushing ideation out of the World of Imagination into Physical Reality without a meaningful stay in the Honeymoon Suite could risk a standstill, a deadlock, an impasse where creation falls flat.

Lemme explain.

Ideas that aren’t meant for you—kind of like people who aren’t meant for you—have a way of dying by the wayside. And let’s face it—your time is precious. You have a lot of ideas. And the energy it takes to pull ideas from the World of Imagination into Physical Reality is so labor-intensive, you want to ensure it’s got legs.

So, we miss a step when we fail to enjoy the courtship of the honeymoon. It’s your private time to be infatuated with your spark of creation, to go on walks together and live out your romantic comedy montage on as many rewinds as you feel necessary.

It’s through this courtship that you decide—with time—if your idea is lush enough to move from the Honeymoon Suite, down the World of Imagination’s boulevard—and be birthed into Physical Reality.

And if it is—well, that’s where the puppy love ends and the real work begins.

But that’s a rant for another post.

In the meantime, savor your courtship, cultivate creative love, and hang your DND sign on your door, unapologetically infatuated.