What are some good ways to get creative inspiration?

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― Nowell (Nowell), Thursday, 10 February 2005 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Marijuana

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 10 February 2005 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

- imbibe your favourite stimulant/intoxicant
- be in a confined space with no distractions

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 10 February 2005 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Have a late night silly, disjointed giggly convo with someone you get along with. Shit you'll come up with can be gold (like my nose goblins kids book idea!)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 10 February 2005 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Hell Trayce, that IS gold.

― Nellie (nellskies), Thursday, 10 February 2005 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe I'll get stoned and then try to write a song or poem or story .
But first I need to find out where to acquire some marijuana.

― Nowell (Nowell), Thursday, 10 February 2005 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Marijuana doesn't make ideas jump into your head. It is simpler, less expensive and less risky to just get goofy all on your own. If you have a friend you are relaxed and goofy with then get her (or him) involved, too. Have fun. Fun is more inspiring than drugs.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 10 February 2005 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, you're probably right.

― Nowell (Nowell), Thursday, 10 February 2005 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Sit still, with no distractions. Maybe some music. Keep a pen and paper handy, but don't force anything. Drugs are optional, and often a detriment.

Breathing, schmeathing. If I'd only known at a younger age that when my parents were telling me to 'sit still' they were actually telling me to 'buy enlightenment a cup of coffee', I could have saved myself a lot of time and trouble.

― Evanston Wade (EWW), Thursday, 10 February 2005 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Sitting with no distractions will quickly get dull, and I suppose fear of boredom will force you to entertain yourself by being creative. But what kind of creativity is going to come out of that sort of situation? Shouldn't you be out looking for new ideas, new ways of putting things together? Out at the library, museum, gallery, etc?

― Augustine (Augustine Bearse), Thursday, 10 February 2005 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah Ive found walking and thinking, being in galleries, even reading can spark off ideas. Mind you I end up using ILX as the reading excuse and we all know where that leads.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 10 February 2005 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Rip something off. In shoehorning someone else's idea into your own work, you might just create a spark that will set you on a new path.

Re-write, re-record, re-draw (or whatever it is you do) your existing work. Keep the original, obviously. What you're after is the artistic equivalent of stem cell research.

Write a summary of your own work, then write a summary of the summary, etc.

I used to work in a record shop. Timid, plainly-dressed people would often come in and ask me if we had an Inspirational section. I would direct them to the self-help audio books and they would frown at me ... When I learned that to the Christian community Inspirational means bland, starchy gospel rock, I decided that inspiration is probably overrated.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Thursday, 10 February 2005 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Nowell, don't get stoned - you're too young, babe.

Have fun... like wot Trayce said.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 10 February 2005 06:44 (twenty-one years ago)

A hot bath.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 10 February 2005 06:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Get out of the house. Do something by yourself that no one would do with you, anyway. I like cemeteries. They're quiet and pretty and absolutely dripping with the possibility of reading significance into the mundane. Barring that, go see old movies. Or read a book. You'll never get inspired by focusing on getting inspired.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Thursday, 10 February 2005 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

If I may quote my own blog entry from yesterday, this is not a process of getting ideas -- there really is no such process -- but rather of getting perspective. Once you have a larger perspective, all your ideas are better. This always works, every single time.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Thursday, 10 February 2005 07:10 (twenty-one years ago)

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