Ahh yes, I hear you about the whole creative flow thing when not flying high...
The way I look at it, down time (even if it is forced upon us by depression) is very much a part of the overall creative flow... it is during our down times that we have what feels like an infinite amount of time to ponder our selves and our situations and relationships...
From that very simmering, unpleasant as it can many times be, comes the concentration of the flavours of your life, and those flavours spring out onto whichever creative artistic medium we choose as our form of expression...
For you and I, it is words... but there are so many other ways of expression that we each engage in... our very relationship with our mother planet is the truest form of art I can think of...
I wouldn't worry too much about the slight blockage to the creative flow, @eth ... after all, it is from the silence that the words come in the first place...
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Anyhoo, enough Zen philoso-babble for now... 
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How did your reading go? It can be quite a confronting challenge to step up and bare it all on stage, especially if one isn't used to it...
In high school, a couple of my teachers saw something in me that I most definitely did not, and before I knew it, they had leaned on me that heavily that I had agreed to be a member of the school debating team (as first speaker), and part of a theatre sports competition doing improv...
For me, a shy and bullied boy, getting up on the main stage and doing improv in front of critics with big fists, it was an interesting challenge... hahaha...
I hated every minute of it... it was anxiety-inducing to the extreme...
But, oddly enough, I survived it, and eventually had a lot of fun with a great group of people...
Unless it is a topic matter that I hold very dear to my heart and know something about, I tend to remain quiet and desirous of ducking any attention... but if it's something I am really passionate about, you can't shut me up... hahahaaaa...
I look forward to hearing of your reading, @eth ... and maybe a hair dryer can get those wing feathers nice and fluffy again... 
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