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Depending on which creative activity I want to do. If I am writing I like to pull 3 random words and create a story out of them.
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Depending on which creative activity I want to do. If I am writing I like to pull 3 random words and create a story out of them.
Best creative sparks for me are:
1. Dance
2. Meditate
3. People watch- coffee houses are best because you can be casual about it and quite frankly, eaves drop on people.
4. Go for a walk, get out in nature.
5. Join groups that spark your inquisitive mind. SP is great for that but you can also join political parties, environmental, etc. but be careful because they can tend to end up being real time suckers.
6. Try to sleep... yes I am kidding here, but that is usually when my idea's spark the most, especially if I have to wake up early the next morning.
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I've only recently begun to explore my creativity and though I do not approve of its way of surfacing, I accept it for the time being. The only time I get any writing done that I am satisfied with is when I am angry or irritated. My writing doesn't always turn out to be angry because of my mood, but sometimes an angry story must be told.
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My creativity is sparked by living a full life, by putting myself in situations that are thriving with colourful characters and a wide spectrum of stimuli.
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My creativity is sparked by living a full life, by putting myself in situations that are thriving with colourful characters and a wide spectrum of stimuli.
By welcoming a different variety of people into my life, I am privy to so many different aspects of living.
The flicker of an open fire can pour inspiration down your eyeballs and into your veins, the heat can invoke a warmth that opens your heart to feelings that stretch back through time to recollect the fondness of a simpler way to view the world.
If I allow myself to stay within the same routine, my creativity will suffer due to lack of inspiration. So, all the more reason to get out of the house and enjoy the life I have been blessed with and may the creative juices flow accordingly...
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I prefer to meditate, pretend I'm walking into the world of my stories. Then the writing process sort of becomes a chronicling experience. I'm not inventing so much as recording.
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Just start! When I'm blocked, I just take my tools and medium, whether it's art journaling, writing or whatnot and just start. Put the ink to the paper or the paint to the page and do SOMEthing. A few words, a line, a scribble, a doodle. And from there it often takes off. I find that if I spend too much time thinking about the end result or how I want it to "be" then I just get more and more stuck. Some of the best things I've created are when I didn't think. And just did.
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There's my ipod with my playlist titled "Down the Rabbit Hole" then there's inspiration that I sometimes get from art magazines and books. And most importantly, emotion always sparks my creativity. Whether it's frustration from work, melancholy from a loss, lighthearted from a loved one, the list goes on.
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There's my ipod with my playlist titled "Down the Rabbit Hole" then there's inspiration that I sometimes get from art magazines and books. And most importantly, emotion always sparks my creativity. Whether it's frustration from work, melancholy from a loss, lighthearted from a loved one, the list goes on.
My strange imagination hasn't seemed to have stopped working since the day I came into this world. That always helps of course.
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i have to sort of remind myself that i need to be creative in order to survive. pretty much lights a fire.
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You should never force yourself to be creative. At least not if you are actively pursuing to achieve something in the field you want to be creative in. Only write/paint/write music/... if you 'need' to. If you feel that you have to push yourself than that is probably nothing for you. Be creative because you will die otherwise.
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I look at what I need to do until something comes up, whether it's something I can do to get my creative juices flowing (running, looking through some magazines) or it's the idea itself.
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Personally I stay up late and allow myself to get stuck in a thought loop while listening to music. After words I have nothing other to do than write for if I don’t, I don’t allow myself to sleep because of said thought loop.
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Structure.
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Structure.
I write at the same time every day, just as I used to have a practice schedule for guitar. If I'm blocked I go to a writing prompt and force something out. Usually at the end of the session I'm onto something, and I can then go back to it the next day.
Not everything I write is great, just as a lot of the things I played on guitar stank, but the key is I allow myself to produce crap. It's the only way to get the good stuff.
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it depends what I need inspiration for, I sometimes just read stuff on the subject investigate some styles and such and something will come to me, other times it simply comes out at random moments
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As a musician, I find it helpful to sit and play a few songs on my guitar that I already know well as a warm-up. Then I leave my comfort zone and start playing new things, or writing a new piece.
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Thomas Jefferson would run a mile every morning to get his brain pumping. Exercise releases endorphins, which....do something good, or something.
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I personally love to climb so if I really need my creativity to get flowing I go for an intense climbing outing, and than when I come back my mind is so active that creativity just pours out of every o*****e on my head.
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All of the suggestions below are very good. I'm currently reading a book called, 'Imagine: How Creativity Works' by Jonah Lehrer. It confirms some things I already knew about creativity but it also offers one perspective on where creativity comes from. I wish there were more empirical data to support Mr. Lehrer's information but for me, it's cool to understand where creativity comes from and how it can be stimulated. It's an interesting read.
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I have an exercise ritual--I can do it in 10 or 15 minutes--it quiets all the kinetic energy so I can focus-- then the creativity just starts flowing.
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Broaden your definition of "perfect situation".
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Broaden your definition of "perfect situation".
Then the next step would be to learn that you yourself have greater control than you might have first thought . . . over orchestrating and initiating perfect situations for both inner and outer creative expression.
**I also see a lot of people talking about "outside helps" -- particularly drugs or food. They can be of help early-on . . . or perhaps to get one out of a rut. But relying upon them all the time will suddenly find you at the realization that their presence or absence is now the controlling factor over your creativity. You can be "undone" creatively . . . simply by an dumb substance (or situation) that is currently not there or stubbornly refuses to materialize.
The creativity is less yours and "belongs" to the external help or the substance. Your creativity is "owned" and controlled not by you . . . but by outside agency.
You become "a peripheral" of that substance.
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I like to have red wine, a little weed, and some good instrumental music, aggressive is great, as long as it isn't too drummy. I am less productive when I am air drumming. Jazz, to me, is made for art. I enjoy some classical as well, but it's got to be pretty weird for the most part. Though I have some old classical favorites, I mostly stay away from decomposing composers.
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