A global pandemic likely qualifies as one of the worst possible prefs for honing creativity.
Were tired, overwhelmed, and unmotivated, all peppered with random shocks of anxiety.
The question ishow do you keep your creativity alive when youre the actual representation of thethis is fine meme?
Its warm, familiar, safe, and cozyand thats exactly why it would be the death of it.
To prevent my craft suffering from loneliness, I periodically dip my tentacles into both neighboring and conflicting disciplines.
If youre a painter, try your hand at music production to get a better understanding of structure.
And if your job has no connection whatsoever to the arts?
Try any and all of the above.
Were stuck at home these days anyway, and you just might find your new passion in the process.
Think of art forms as a color wheel, and always reach for those reckless complementary tones.
Rebuild your primary craft.
Blue for melancholy, red for fierceness, purple for serenity.
I create visual mood boards for my characters, plot, and setting.
Listen to your imagination, and trap your muse in sonic hypnosis.
Smell works too, which, for me, is an odd blend of smoke and scented candles.
For you, it could be lighting incense or diffusing essential oils.
Regardless, choose your scents like you do your battles, and invite them to waft into your craft.
Sip hot cocoa if it sparks childhood nostalgia while writing your memoir.
Drink green tea if its something the subject of your song would do.
Taste your way into your project.
Wrap yourself in the vibe youre projecting in your creation.
Whats hard is sitting down to write.
What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
(If you havent readThe War of Artyet, do it.
Youll thank yourself tenfold later.)
To defy Resistance with a big screw you, snatch the reins and experiment with random creative prompts.
Write, dance, compose, paint, createstarting from this very sentence.
Or use arandom word generator.
That specific word is your creative prompt.
The crazier it seems, the better.
The result can be pure visual or verbal diarrheaor it can be the start of a new masterpiece.
It doesnt matterbut the fact that you did it does.
Youre in control of your inspiration; not the other way around.
To harness your creativity means to challenge it.
Today might not feel like a good day for experimenting, and thats okay.
Maybe tomorrow will be, or the day after, or later this weekend.
Or maybe right now.
Youll never know if you dont try.
