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- luckyorphan0
Are you referring to creative personal or professional work?
If you're referring to professional work, this is the point where the pros are separated from the rookies. Either step it up and follow BRNK's advice, more or less, or consider a different career. It may be creative, but in the end, this is a job. Do your job.
If the trouble is more with personal creativity (What do I do with my free time? What is my contribution to the world as a creative person?), that is a deeper issue. The lack of anything to say or do personally suggests a need to investigate deeply into one's self – by any means necessary – and divine what it is to be a creative individual. Do yo do creative work because you like it? Because you need it? Because you love it? Or do you do it because you were just better at this than anything else, and heck, it beats accounting? If the latter, you may be in some trouble. If any of the former, you must get back in touch with the person who began their advanced schooling in the arts and rediscover why you started along a path toward being creative. At the same time, study those who followed similar paths, from greats (Picasso, Coltrane, etc.) to undiscovered artisans who are absolutely passionate about their craft, whatever it is (the baker with the best bread in town). You must answer the base questions of 'what' and 'why'. Otherwise, try accounting.
"Truth is beauty, and beauty is truth." – Keats