Most of the writing was done in what Fanning described as a "creative burst" between March and May 2005.

Lace Up was recorded in three months in 2010 during a creative burst.

Mr. Young apparently needs his escapist flights to fuel his creative bursts.

But after a final creative burst, Mathis abandons his brushes and goes off, as he puts it, "to die like a beast in the forest."

Not bad going for an artist whose creative bursts don't last long.

"But if he was a creative genius, how do they replace his creative bursts?"

Thompson did not sustain his creative burst (who could?)

The impulses behind this creative burst are as complex as the contemporary Haitian experience.

This led to a creative burst on Wall Street.

The loose structure allows for the creative bursts necessary for the Harold.