Compulsion

Compulsion: an irresistible urge to perform an act

This term has a negative connotation, but I don’t know how else I can one describe the need to sit for hours at a time sawing, filing, polishing, painting, or working clay on a wheel. The makers out there know this feeling, the serenity that comes from getting lost in a project. The pride that comes from completing it. Saying “I made that” and then the immediate need to start working on the next thing.