Creativity Paralysis

[nidonocu]

Recently, to a greater or lesser degree, I've found doing anything hard. Even writing this post is hard, thinking what I want to say and getting it in to words and actually posting it. Not because of any physical problem or anything like that, but just a fundamental state of being unable to capture the right mood and the right feelings at the right

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[enteirah]

All I can suggest is doing what I do and having a list of things you want to do or make, which you can add to over time then you have a reminder for when you feel inspired to actually do them.

I'm not sure if this actually works or not as I've been doing this for about 2 years now. Yet I've still barely ever been able to pull myself out of the rut and get anything else other than writing them on the list done, but it's a start!

[fatkraken]

Would you fancy doing a regular art jam or similar? come round for a couple hours, get the lads down from up the road, get a pizza and just draw or sew or whatever. No internet, cartoons in the background. I have plenty of photobooks of animals and suchlike if you need references, or I can do a big picdump onto my laptop if you have particular species in mind.

[loganberrybunny]

I'm not sure how much use this will be, but the last bit of writing I did wasn't planned at all. Not even in the broadesst outline. It just turned up in my mind, and I started writing it then and there. It was about two in the morning, too, and I was terribly tired. I've noticed that I quite often seem less often to get going when I'm fully awake and alert; maybe it's because my mind then has the capacity to hold all sorts of other things, whereas when I'm knackered it's all I can do to keep one idea in my head.

[tibek]

I gotta say, I totally know how you feel. x_x Admittedly, I can create art that's easy to see and such but I can hear you from the programming side, too. I hardly ever feel like I can show off the websites I code all day at work because I rarely do the design and that's what people see and like

[quirkyshock]

Try setting aside distraction-free time for your creative endeavors at least once a week (if possible). That means for a certain amount of time, you shut off and stay away from anything that would distract you and/or prevent those creative juices from flowing