Adulting and Feel Like Your Creativity Has Died? Try this to Reawaken It
How do I spark my creativity?
You used to read fiction all the time. Maybe you have a notebook full of writing and stories.
Now, you work 9-5 and you feel like you have absolutely no time to even think about being creative. But seeing how you used to be creative makes you wish you could do it again.
Consume to be creative.
When you were in a more creative headspace you were most likely consuming things that inspire you creatively.
You were reading stories. Watching your favorite tv shows, and watching movies more regularly.
Consuming stories that inspire us often lead our thoughts to imaginative places.
What we put in will in some way come up. During that time when you’re most inspired by what you’ve just seen or read, is a good time to try to write about it.
Practice this habit by reading or watching something that inspires you and then take only 5 minutes to write about it. Since you are trying to get your creativity going again it would make sense to start small with only 5 minutes. When you’re ready you can bump that time up.
By practicing this on a regular basis you will see your creativity spark right back up.
Write literally anything.
It could be one to three pages. But when you can, schedule a time to write one page of anything.
Anything?
Anything.
“I’m writing because I want to try to be creative again. I can’t think of what to write, but I’m going to keep writing because I want to write a whole page and not give up. Today, I opened my fridge and found no cheese. I thought to myself, “I’ll have to go to the grocery store later.””
A very fun exercise for this type of writing it’s to turn your daily routines into another character’s life.
“Tommy got up to Write and couldn’t think of anything. He stared at the blank page as though it were Everest. He knew it was impossible for him, so instead, he got up and went to his fridge.
“Ugh. Out of cheese again…” he sighed to himself. “Gotta go to the store today.””
And then you can add some fiction to spark that creativity and make the writing more fun.
“Tommy biked pretty much everywhere. He liked the passive exercise and the breeze. When he was biking he would often daydream about where he would travel to if he could travel. He didn’t normally imagine warm beaches. He often drifted to snow-covered mountains and skiing. He had one memory of his father taking him skiing and it really stuck with him.
Tommy’s thoughts were interrupted by a sound he knew well but didn’t think it was real. It was louder than he had ever heard before. So loud that it sounded like it was right behind him. He turned around to see two cars had collided. At first, he couldn’t believe it, but then inside the car closest to him, he saw a young woman panicking as blood was flowing from her neck.
He didn’t even think. He just threw down his bike and sprinted over to her. He opened her door and grabbed her neck to try to stop the bleeding. While his one hand was blocking the blood flow his other was dialing 911.”
It’s not perfect, but hopefully, you get the idea of how you can start writing about anything, perhaps nothing exciting, and then twist it and turn it into a fun creative daily writing exercise for yourself.
Some people think that because their lives are normal they can’t write about anything interesting, but the flip side of that is, your character could be in a normal routine when something out of the normal happens to them.
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Try writing about characters that used to inspire you.
Think of what you used to read and watch. Who were the characters that inspired you when you were in a more creative headspace?
Go ahead and piggyback off of your favorite authors and borrow their characters and world to write your own adventures for your favorites.
This allows you the easier path to just being creative in your writing exercises.
You don’t have to think about world-building just yet. You can focus on just the story.
As you get more into it, it will be easier for you to come up with your own characters, their world, and the big plot points.
But when you’re in a creative rut, it is a good practice to let someone you admire do the heavy lifting while you get back on track.
Try writing a short story with one of your favorite characters in their world. Then drop them into a different world. Then create your own character and drop them into the new world you just made.
Blend your ideas between fiction and the real world.
Tolkien wrote his fiction and based it around real-world stuff happening in his own life.
He explored PTSD and how characters that had gone through the bloody, horrifying war were left changed, and they couldn’t go back to normal life.
Rowling, the fact that she was a teacher, wrote about the politics outside the school and how they affect the daily and yearly lives of students.
So don’t be worried if all you have time for is watching the news.
Try this exercise:
The next time you hear a news report that shocks you, turn it into a short story but jazz it up.
“Breaking news: Trump Rallies turn into a riot.”
“Povlo didn’t want to go on a car ride today, but mama bear insisted. They drove for miles and hours. He eventually nodded off. When he woke up he couldn’t believe his eyes. There were other animals all around the car, as far as he could see. They were walking with flags and chanting something he didn’t understand. Some wore face paint of blue, yellow, and red.
“Mama, why are they wearing paint?”
“Because they’re excited.”
“I want to wear paint!”
Mama bear smiled, “okay, when we get there, I’ll paint a turtle on your face. Would you like that?”
“No, I want a shark!”
Mama smirked, “oh I see. Turtles aren-“
Before Momma could finish her sentence there was a loud pop and an explosion of glass. Mama looked in the rearview mirror and their back window was shattered. Mama reacted in a scream and Polvo immediately cried.”
You can take almost anything and turn it into a story. Try to turn the news into a detailed moment for a couple of characters even though the news might be about many people.
Final Thoughts
There are seasons of life where it’ll take more work to be creative.
Try to take what seems normal and mundane to you and turn it into short stories.
Try to develop a regular practice of this.
Don’t worry if it’s perfect, (the things I wrote above weren’t). It’s better to have words to work with instead of a blank page.
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