Does creativity come in bursts?

Now that my keyboard has start clicking, it doesn't feel like stopping. Looking at the sudden flurry of posts on my blog after a long time of inactivity, I feel that there is something periodic about creativity. I feel that creativity is likely to come in bursts. There are times when a person is at a low mental energy level for a long time and then suddenly due to some trigger or stimulus, something clicks somewhere and out comes a long list of ideas. This probably explains why sometimes my blog isn't updated for a long long time and then I keep on spewing out post after post. Though there are ways how one can artificially stimulate oneself (no naughty naughty, I mean through exercises like brainstorming), personally I feel that it is better to let the creative spark come on its own. I read somewhere on the net that the best ideas are likely to come in the bed, the bus or the bath. Was it Einstein who said this? I don't remember clearly. For me the best ideas come during bathing or just after meditation. Yup when the mind isn't thinking of something important, that is the time when it is most likely to come up with new ideas.

Here is an excellent article which reconfirms why blogging daily is not that important. Time Magazine, however, doesn't agree with this theory of creativity in burst and has a nice article here. Just to test out my theory, I sorted my blog posts and created a chart showing frequency of posts month-wise. And it seems that there is a periodicity of about three-four months when I blog at a healthy rate (I'll have to improve this).



Thought partly I also feel that the inactivity on my blog could be due to my laziness. I think up of ideas, write a post in my mind, but I'm too lazy to convert it to a concrete form. Another thing I have to improve.