Creativity and Deadlines

you just sit down and start the hard work, and trust that it will happen, even if it doesn't feel like it

Kathy Sierra writes about creativity and deadlines in the muse always comes late. Why do we always seem to work right up to the deadline? Being creative many times involves doing the work, it doesn't appear before you start most of the time, but it shows up after you start working on something.
(Via Creating Passionate Users.)