What other creative outlets are you exploring?

In addition to writing, I've always enjoyed drawing. I don't draw as much as I used to, but it's still something I consider to be one of my passionate hobbies. I even enjoy trying to draw the characters from my written stories, since I am a visual person.

And it's not very "creative", but I also enjoy playing video games, especially RPGs. To me, video games are just virtual, interactive stories, and they can help me rest my mind for a bit when I'm struggling with my writing.

 

I've redesigned so many electric guitars homing my wants and needs and trying a lot of different parts and products.

I used to buy old broken guitars and have them fixed up.
I bought a guitar when I was 12, I knew what I wanted it to be, it was firewood when I bought it/stripped of its original parts, and I was 21 when what I saw (the finished product) came into fruition and made that leap from imagination to reality; which to be honest was about 60 years before I thought I'd ever see the day, thinking once I'd be 80 before I ever saw the day; I was 21 and this then lead to a mass of guitar buying and redesigning.

I then spent from 2007/2008 to 2011 designing customising different guitars before I was afforded the opportunity to buy a guitar I had earmarked to clone with a cheaper guitar; I bought it, it was what stopped me for a while, since I had the guitar I tried to mimic, and I had what I wanted done to it (after market guitar pickups I like) and.. That's all I needed.

Then in 2014/2015 I revisited my guitar designing need and worked on an old project/design I first went one way with then ran back to where I came from but then drove it home when I found one product which I never knew was on the market enabled me to 'finish' this guitar in my eyes, in 2015/2016.

In 2017, last November in fact, almost a year to the day, I found my dream guitar for sale in budget and I snapped it up; since I was shopping for one anyway on London's used guitar scene which was full of reissues and custom shops (really nice high end guitars in London)... and, I got my guitar and, based on everything from 2007 to 2017, I knew what I liked/didn't like/wanted with my 2017 guitar which I cloned of Slash's from Guns N' Roses of the one guitar I always wanted when I was growing up... I now have one and know what it takes to make another.