Team SP
Everywheresville, Earth
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Well, I've always been a writer. So, often I'll sit down with my notebook and start writing about something. Anything at all. Sometimes it's my day, sometimes it's something I saw that day, sometimes it's something I've been thinking about a lot. I'll just write whatever comes into my mind, and usually, it just goes from there. I usually feel like drawing as soon as I get bored with writing.
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Creative state Recipe:
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Creative state Recipe:
first you must mix some music with solitude
allow your thoughts and feelings to expand in the mixtures,
most importantly do not forget to add many cups of imagination
Optional items might include but are not limited to:
musical instruments, wood, paper, paints and even colored pencils if needed.
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Creativity for me is a combination of anxiety, obsessive-compulsion, up swings, and the desire to touch whatever it is I'm working with. I have to be hands on and I have to ask a lot of questions. Whenever I hear a song I like I always ask myself "how did they to that" then tell myself "I can totally do that" then go figure it out on a piano, guitar, or Gameboy. And then I pursuit it endlessly until it is either complete or I get bored...which leads to many unfinished projects unfortunately.
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Become influenced with the world around you, no matter how sane, freaky or disturbing it can be....me, as a writer, i read alot about what i find curiosity in.
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Become influenced with the world around you, no matter how sane, freaky or disturbing it can be....me, as a writer, i read alot about what i find curiosity in.
I stare out into space and wonder about things while listening to some of my tunes in the dark, just to clear my mind and pretend to find inner peace, then my brain starts to spark randomly at thoughts too soft for me to hear because my more vibrant thoughts distracting me....
To become original, become influenced, and at times pretend you KNOW the world, put yourself in a position and play 'king' or 'master', like you did when you were 5 and forget who you are, forget the 'chains' your no longer a 'prisoner', become lost, and just think of just the ideas that you've seen or read and become absorbed, don't let limitations hold you back on your thinking....but most of all, be willing to let your creativity take control.
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Music gets me feeling really creative. Cleaning also help. When I clean I usually end finding cool things that lead me to want to do something creative. Doing things I've never done before make me feel creative. Just looking around makes me feel creative. Recently some friends of mine and I went for a walk around one of my friend's house and ended up going to her shed. Her parents are now letting us redecorate it and turn it into a place for us to hang because we walked into her shed and though we could turn it into something great!
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Observing EVERYTHING!!!! Listening, but always searching for something that gives you that emotional rush. That's what being creative really is, trying to portray an emotion to others through something. So just always being on the lookout for something that gives you an emotional response.
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Cook, read, clean, go out drinking with people you don't know, ANYTHING that requires a motor function. Anything to avoid thinking about that initial feeling that a creation is on the way. I try to let the subconscious do the work until it bubbles over.
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MUSIC,MUSIC is so powerful for me, it fuels my writing , painting with my daughter, when the mood strikes I just write..
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I think the first thing is that you have to let go of your inhibition, in whatever form that is. I found that when I had some restriction on how I think an idea, concept will be perceived or come off, in that act I am stiffing my own creativity. I also try and just let myself relax and not focus on trying to come up with something, but let an idea come to me - they usually do. I always find I can be more creative when I put myself into a new environment and look at things with a new perspective.
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I have to stop thinking about the stressful things, and just let my mind wander to other things. Think about things that I enjoy, and don't worry about what I am creating until I am done. I tend to over think my projects, and I have found that when I stop thinking about it, it turns out better.
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I feel like college has taken away my creativity, even though college is supposed to do the opposite. Most days are so bland and everything has become a routine. I hate it.
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the way i see it true creativity comes within. i like art quite a bit and i find it's best to just sit down and get painting or drawing or whatever it is you do and just let your mind wander
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I think the idea of needing to be in a certain state to create is a myth. As a writer, I've found that writing doesn't happen as the result of a magical formula. Writing happens when you sit down, pick up a pen and get on with it. It's boring and banal and not what anyone wants to hear, but it's the truth.
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All my crafting supplies and an awesome sound track. As of late it has been Florence and the Machine or Muse!
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I find it's a lot easier to be creative when I'm really, really tired, because you don't really care about anything when you're tired other than the spur of the moment - you won't be going, "does that look right?" every second. Also, it seems like my mind works best when I'm sleep deprived because there isn't really any line between an overactive imagination and what's actually there.
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I think it has a lot to do with how you carry yourself through society. Just, how you live. If you go around limiting yourself to what other people do, I don't think you will get too far with creativity.
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I think it has a lot to do with how you carry yourself through society. Just, how you live. If you go around limiting yourself to what other people do, I don't think you will get too far with creativity.
So, I try to live my life a bit differently than what I see on the street. I'm not saying become a straight up hipster, but there is a reason why they seem to be so creative.
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I lock myself in a room with a piano, turn off any communication with the world, and let go of everything I've been holding on to.
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I find something that evokes a strong emotion in me, let it build, and then release it.
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I go for walks and jot down notes after returning from hypnagogia. I also go through sketching sessions. I'll draw anything and everything that comes to mind and keep the good ideas for later use. It's my own personal database of ideas straight from the subconscious.
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focus on not thinking and when a thought comes into my head while I'm painting like "will this painting suck?" I tell my mind to shut up and just feel. It takes a lot of practice but it's so freeing when you just be. If my mind keeps nagging I tell it "hey look, no one EVER has to see this painting when I'm done, it's just for me". that usually works :)
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Well I often get inspired to write poems after listening to music or listening to Anis Mojgani or Andrea Gibson's poems. And sometimes (often at work) I feel inspired when I hear or read a word or a phrase. Today it was the idea of a locket and a conversation about not having enough time. Yesterday it was (oddly enough) windows and wrinkles. I think most of the creativity comes out of the very normal, everyday things. For me, anyways.
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Life needs to happen in order to cause me to be creative. It can happen spontaneously however. Especially during a conversation in which an interesting phrase is used. I pick up on word play quite a bit and I find it helps to inspire lyrics and poetry.
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smoke, drink, nap, read, music, Bridget Jones and go outside! Think 'what would *place creative person's name here* do?'
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I listen to comedy! Maria Bamford always gets me in the right state of mind to create something weird. :)
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Music is definitely a must, intrumental sound tracks or classical music, I don't like to be distacted by other peoples words, so it has to be instrumental, in order for me to get into what I call the "zone"! Ideas just come to me, so fast and furious that I have to write them down and store them away, because sometimes I think my creative ideas, try to sabotage ones I'm already working on.
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I go on here.
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I go on here.
I go envelop myself in nature.
I go to sleep and let my dreams guide me.
Speaking of which, it's getting quite late. I'm off to bed now; I bid you all a good night.
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I like to cut pictures out of magazines. Or just swaths of color - sometimes I have a theme or a pattern to what I cut out, other times just whatever moves me. Collage making is really cathartic for me.
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For me - (Hobby music producer)
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For me - (Hobby music producer)
Break down my weed - go smoke a bowl or two
listen to the music that I love (rock, metal, good rap, Beatles, etc.)
listen to the music that I don't like (lame rap aka todays rap)
Then as the weed starts kicking in - start playing on the piano
When I find I melody I like - just go with it
Finish the beat on Fruity Loops / Reason - mix / master on Pro Tools
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Free-writing and thumbnails. I don't worry about how things are supposed to look like or sound like. I just go with it. Let my instincts take over. And usually it turns out pretty good. Better than if I think too much.
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1 cup of tea
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1 cup of tea
2 spoons of spunk
A dash of frustration
7 sweet nothings of inspiration
3 whips of passion
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I always feel more creative after watching a favorite movie or book. Good writing inspires good writing...
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I just gotta get some endorphins charged up and runnin! Usually works after work out, a good movie, or just music! It all helps me to be positive and motivated. Plus I'm a big dreamer and always wide eyed about changing the future or making a huge impact in a positive way somewhere in my job. Trying to always up the ante. Music and a good workout get me ready for it!
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Because of my work as a photographer I have to be in creative mood all the time. Because of this constant need it is pretty hard for me to maintain this feeling.
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Because of my work as a photographer I have to be in creative mood all the time. Because of this constant need it is pretty hard for me to maintain this feeling.
My ways of dealing with this:
- music. I totally agree with PiddyCams, it keeps fire burning. I mean, music itself is creative process, so you can almost say its imitative way to create creativity.
- Trying to think out of the box. Just thinking about what can I do differently or totally oposite of ordinary way keeps me creative.
- I know that this isn`t too good way, but I can keep myself motivated and creative when I compare myself to myself in past. Watching and understanding progress always seems to create.
Although I have these ordinary ways of generating creativity, they will use out at some point, so, if some of you guys have some different and original ideas they would be appreciated.
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I am the most creative when I read a snippet of something and/or I get an image in my head and then make a story off of what I see in my mind's eye.
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I read, hear or see something that stimulates me to write! That's all and then I write.
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I'm almost always in a creative mindset. That's just me. But when I'm feeling really creative and I want to make something of it, I create an atmosphere for myself.
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I'm almost always in a creative mindset. That's just me. But when I'm feeling really creative and I want to make something of it, I create an atmosphere for myself.
1. Must be completely alone.
2. I have to have a beanie on.
3. I play really calm indie music when I paint/draw/write.
4. Sometimes I light candles or incense.
I do a lot of art and I play guitar, so a good atmosphere is a must for me.
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Listening to music ALWAYS gets the fire burning. I must listen to music while I paint.
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