Having someone to bounce ideas off can be a priceless commodity when it comes to the world of prose and arts.

It can offer the possibility of reflection and the chance to find something missed otherwise. It’s part of what makes the powerful relationship of husband and wife Sean E. Williams and Lindsey Duos Williams.

The fact that their mediums are in two different areas — Sean writes graphic novels and Lindsey is the theater director for Riverland Community College — provides opportunities for different modes of thought.

“It’s good because it’s a different perspective on things,” Sean said. “If I was working with another comic book writer, we would be seeing the same things. Her doing theater causes her to see other types of creativity.”

Many may make the assumption that the mediums are vastly different: One is pen-to-paper; the other is more visual from the stage. Yet it’s the circulating creativity that flows between the two that makes it work.

“It’s more motivating on a certain level,” Sean said. “There’s a good motivation for creation in our house, and a big part of that is we are creative.”

For large parts of the day the two work apart from each other. Sean works from home in an upstairs office while Lindsey spends her time at Riverland. So while the two often rely on how one perceives a problem, they both have their own way of working things out.

Often times it can be a two-step process.

“If I have a problem or unsure about something I go to Lindsey first,” Sean said. “If I’m really stuck I place what needs to go there and keep moving on.”

In some ways it mirrors Lindsey’s own thinking, and it’s something she tells her students when rehearsing for a play and she gets stuck.

“There are times during rehearsal, when I’m trying to stage a musical number and we’ll come back to something later,” she said.

Both agree that — the act of walking away and coming back — makes things go much more easier.

“So important,” Lindsey said.

“Yes,” Sean echoed.

“I come back so much more energized,” Sean added. “It’s easy to get into bad habits and to break the habit literally revives you.”

There is something to be said about trying to do too much, a sentiment shared by both Sean and Lindsey.

While they both take steps to remedy a situation that might be causing a certain headache, they admit you can only do one thing at a time.

“You can’t be creating and assessing at the same time,” Lindsey said. “You get it and then step back.”

“You have to get through all the bad stuff part of the process too,” Sean added.