The Role Of Periodic Breaks From Composition

What is your experience with breaks from composing?

Have you ever experienced them?

Have your breaks been voluntary or because of a lack of inspiration?

What do you think is the role of extended breaks from composing (i.e. for a month or two or longer)?

What would be the impact of such breaks on future composition?

Are they helpful for your development as a composer?

Do you think that sometimes such breaks are needed in order to gain perspective of where it is you have reached as a composer (what you have so far achieved) and where you are going, where you are still aiming to reach, of the road ahead that you still need to travel through (what you still have to achieve)?

And as such, do you think that one should sometimes deliberately refuse to heed one's inspirations in order to be able to take such necessary breaks, and later return to composing refreshed and with a more developed musical language and compositional vision?

Depends on your learning style.

I have many short breaks, mainly due to my complete lack of willing... This may sound weird, but that's true: sometimes I don't want to compose anything. This feeling may last for several days. After a while, the urge to compose begins to grow again, but I stil wait a little bit more to start again. As this urge almost always comes with a musical idea, I try to develop this idea in my mind before actually starting to compose it.