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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[pippinbear]

Erf. I've kinda had the same for years, too. Even things like tidying up the huge quantities of junk I have here are very very hard to get started on. I've been trying to get started on building a fursuit since about 1997...

[dingotush]

It is unfortunate that it is very hard as an individual to create any useful bit of software that others can see. One way is to work with very small platforms, such as Arduino, where you are very limited to the amount of code

[greenreaper]

I feel your pain. It's been a while since I could justify much beyond tech or editing stuff to myself - there's always going to be someone better. I've also got a related problem where I get distracted by different non-creative tasks that I want to do.

I find it helps a bit to split off stuff that I want to do now and stuff that could be done later. In theory I can then focus on what I'm trying to do. The trouble is I then get screens full of tabs weighing down my browser. Some things also get delayed when they shouldn't - it makes it easier to procrastinate over "hard" decisions.

As you say, it's all too easy to find something cool ("hey! I can add SSL to my websites!") that soaks up time you were planning to do something more important or creative.

Better get out of that rut, though. It won't be long before you need to draw another 10-year retrospective!