1. inspiration: travel, meet new people, read books, watch movies/series, take chances (=experience new things!)→ this will help you find new inspiration which in turn will make you want to create✈️❤️🩹🌅🚞💏
2. creation: with your new inspiration you can now create!🎞️🎧🖼️🌷it is important to keep on creating (even on days when you know nothing good will come out of it) → doing your craft often will make you more comfortable with your craft and build your confidence
3. experimentation: once you've done it enough times (creating) you'll have built enough confidence to experiment and try new techniques and styles → when said experimentation goes well your confidence will slowly grow🌷🐌💐🪷🌻🌹
4. collaboration: meet others and create together! collective creative work is so fulfilling and great for building confidence and skill 💂🏾🧑🏼💼👨🏿⚖️🧝🏿♀️👨🏼💼👩🏼🎤
this is my take on building creative confidence:) i hope this helps🌹
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Pull a joni mitchell and engage in arts that differ from your primary to inform it at a later time.
If you lean more toward visual arts try poetry, song writing, music making, acting/performances for the self, crochet, clay, claymation, videography, sound collection, whistling, discovering new sounds you can make etc.
Often when i want to create but i feel tired or uninspired i try to use still life or my surroundings— BUT If thats boring i ask myself a question and let my train of thought ramble -> connecting that rambling to my pen on paper
Honestly setting your inner critic to rest and creating things that are imperfect is actually incredible!
More often than not letting first drafts be final for a moment allows you to discover what you crave to create.
Apr 11, 2024
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Just make something, if you want to you should force yourself. Inspiration won’t usually strike before you are creating, but during the process. Even if it comes from way outside, you’ll probably only figure out how to channel it when you’re already in the middle of something. Seek the experience of making, not having finished products— and so once you've begun, you’ve already accomplished it, you’re creating something (i.e. being creative). You form a habit and things get better and you inspire yourself.
unless you once had a divine muse that has since passed you by, then maybe you’re out of luck
Jan 7, 2025
There’s a chart I added below that’s helped me become an overall better creative. Inspiration comes and goes and often times is so flimsy that you can’t even trust it once it arrives! But being in the habit of creating breeds consistency. Creating for the sake of creating helps you develop a more efficient system + allows you understand yourself better.
What happens when you create by habit is that eventually inspiration will hit and when it does you’ll have been expecting it and prepared for it. An inspired moment combined with a system built on habit breeds amazing, truly inspired works of genius.
As someone who picked up writing two months ago and is now doing 2-3 articles a week for a newsletter, I’ve learned that I have to write regardless of whether inspiration is there or not. And when I do that, I often find myself getting inspired in the process of habit.
Final thought is that someone once told me creativity ebbs and flows and to get the good ideas out you need to release the bad ones. This means you have to create over and over and over to push out the crap and get to the gold. This only happens if you get into a habit of creating.
Hope this helps!
Apr 11, 2024
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