Creative process is rarely straightforward. It does not, however, follow that everything that runs a convoluted course is creative. Yet what you're involved with right now is something calling for an intuitive, innovative and even artful approach to the question. Note that applying such a perspective is likely to come with a series of breakthroughs and then phases of effort at applying what you've discovered. Keep working in layers and your idea will gradually take form. If it involves risks, consider that those are most likely to be intellectual ones. If you notice when you are thinking the way you've always thought, you will be that much likelier to notice when something different happens. If you apply any idea on an experimental basis, remember that uncertainty is an important part of the process.