I don't write as well as I used to back when I was a lot younger. Nor am I as creative. The cogs of my brain seem to have slowed down to a pedestrian crawl as I became older, as I started to focus more and more on the morose business of living life as an adult shackled with real responsibilities. I don't know how the actually creative individuals do it, but I imagine for the rest of us, that's how it is as time marches on.