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Yes, creating for myself can be such drudgery sometimes. Take my current portfolio site - it took me six months just to come up with the entrance page idea. After that the rest came easily.

Working for clients, as Al says, is tougher. There's a deadline to meet, and no room for creativity. If you're blessed enough you get a client who povides enough info to finish up the job quickly, or otherwise you get one who doesn't know a pixel from a pushcart and it can become a migraine.

But that heady rush of free-floating nirvana that comes when true creativity breaks through seems elusive. It is as rare a commodity as the short story is for writers.

Besides, as MB pointed out, you are never quite satisified with what you've produced. You design something, mull over it, come back to it again and again, and yet it's never quite right.

We are always are own worst critics