Reddit reviews Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Highly recommend this book.

When you create art, do you sit down and think about the exact brush stroke, or exact notes you want to play and plan each of them out step by step like a computer program? or do you let it flow, consciously experiencing it as it becomes?

For me, creating art is not a conscious activity. I will set the intention with my conscious mind (I want to create a song in this style that is about this idea) but the actual melodies, lyrics and chords come from the muse.

Possibly Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert?