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One of the most important elements to being able to write regularly, deeply, and consistently as a creative writer is to be able to find your own unique creative writing rhythm.

If w

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

e don’t learn to listen to, and tune in to, the unique creative rhythm that each of us have, we’ll find it a constant battle to remain motivated and productive in our creative writing pr

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

jects.

Professional athletes and sports players talk about being “in the zone”, where they’re performing at a peak level and everything flows. We can apply the same principle

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

to writing.

So how do we know when we’re not “in the zone”, when we’re out of sync with our natural creative rhythm?

Some of the tell tale signs are:

Writing inconsis

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

ent amounts – 10 pages flow freely one day, but the day after you struggle to string together 10 words.

Being obsessive about tiny details – you spend hours re-writing a sing

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

le difficult line 30 times, and eventually go back to the first version you came up with.

Sticky Shoes Syndrome – you just can’t get going, writing feels about as easy as wading

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

hrough treacle in concrete boots. With an elephant on your back.

Losing objectivity – struggling to see the bigger vision in the project you’re writing. It’s like trying to view

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

mountain range from ground level, instead of flying above in a helicopter to get the overall view of the landscape.

Feeling out of control – you’re aware that sometimes your cre

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

tive writing flows like Niagara Falls and other days it’s barely as fruitful as a dripping tap. But you have no idea why and you don’t feel in control.

So what’s the secret to overco

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

ming some of these struggles and finding YOUR unique creative rhythm?

Put simply: experimenting and testing.

If you keep doing the same things over and over – the same things that

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

ren’t working – then of course they’re going to continue to not work. And you’ll continue to be inconsistent, erratic and frustrated in your creative writing.

Now I’m not suggesting

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

ou have to become an emotionless robot, churning out perfect page after perfect page of creative writing.

Not at all.

There are natural peaks and lulls in our minds and bodies, in

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

ur moods and in our personal circumstances. They’re part of being a human being.

But if we learn to recognise these patterns, learn to find when we’re naturally at our best, at our p

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

eaks, we can begin to find our creative rhythm.

And when we do that, we reduce the kind of tell tale signs like those above we feel when we’re struggling to create.

So we’re able t

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

create more consistently, more abundantly and more deeply than ever before.

How do you experiment then to help you find your natural creative rhythm?

Here are some of the fact

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

rs to play around with and see what works best for you:

- The time of day when you write.

- How long you write for.

- How you cope with or eliminate distractions.

- The materials

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ou use to write with.

- Where you write.

- What breaks you have, how long and how often.

- What you do (if anything) to prepare yourself to write.

- Whether you use background music

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

or sounds, or silence.

- How you have your writing space set up physically.

- How you decide when your writing time is over for that session.

Experiment with just one of these

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

ariables at a time or you won’t be able to track the changes effectively.

Once you’ve found the best way of working with that particular factor, keep that fixed and move on and adj

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

st the next one.

Follow these guidelines and you’ll be well on your way to finding your own unique creative rhythm. You’ll begin too to see your creative writing reach new levels.

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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