Feeling uninspired and uncreative?
Do you ever feel like your creativity is stifled or stalled? That all you do is copy and not actually create?
I hear you.
We’re lucky to have a plethora of tutorials, available online and in numerous books, that show us how to make any number of things, including things that we wouldn’t even think of making had we not seen it on a website or in a book first. I thoroughly enjoy tutorials, and appreciate the beauty that people create, but I tire of always being the follower and not the creator.
It seems like everything has been done before, that there is nothing new to develop, invent or create.
When you feel like I do, there is an easy easy solution. After taking a deep breath, screaming in frustration, or tossing something against a wall, go out for a walk. Look around you, tramp through the snow or rain, bask in the sunshine, enjoy a sunset. The sun rises and sets every day but no sunset is quite the same. You may see some of the same colours but each one is unique. No two snowflakes are the same. And think of the different sorts of rainfalls we can have, even though they all consist of the same thing: water falling. Let that be a metaphor for creativity: just because you imitate something that someone else has done first doesn’t mean that you are not creative. You may make the same thing depicted in a tutorial, but since it was made by you, it’s unique. You may discover upon completion of a project that rather than using it for the “intended” use, you have devised a different use that best reflects your life and your reality.
No matter what you decide to do when you’re feeling uncreative, don’t stop creating! The process of mimicing something may be just what is needed to get your mind thinking in new and unique ways.
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