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I get the best ideas while sitting on the toilet while I heard others getting creative before or after sleeping or during a walk outside.
So how do you get inspired?
All of my art is somehow mysteriously made in 2 week bursts. Followed by 2 weeks of utter incomprehension. Manic Depression FTW!
Huh, I came here to post that.
I'm fairly sure I have manic depression/bipolar disorder. I'm beginning therapy in a month. The creativity that occurs from it makes me hesitant to start medication, though. Have you had any experience with this?
I used to think that discipline and creativity were two disparate qualities.
Now I know that was a lie.
Irresponsibility and mediocrity are punishments for believing that lie.
Not many people outside the arts know how true this statement is.
I personally think mind altering substances are a good way to be creative despite what the media may say. If you look at a problem under the influence of something you are bound to think of things that you wouldn't when you were sober. For example, Francis Crick was under the influence of LSD when he discovered the double helical structure of DNA. Not that I am advocating drug use, but I do believe for every abuser of a drug there is going to be someone who uses it in a positive way to enhance society which is something almost never heard when the effects of drugs on society is discussed.
At my home-away-from-home hookah bar, smoking a hookah, drinking a Bawls and listening to my friends' band. Sadly, hookah prices are through the roof, my favorite hookah bar renovated (and poorly), energy drinks just make me jittery now and the band broke up.
Those brief moments when there is nothing to write my thoughts down with. Once I have a pen in hand, GONE.
After a long day if I push myself to the 2am to 3am hour concrete reality slips away and I can write about anything.
Either while riding a bicycle, or when I wake up early and just lay in bed watching the dawn arrive.
The morning after band practice during a manic episode. Right when the hangover starts to break on the way to work, just after my speakers short out and the stereo in my car stops working.
I think I'm the most creative really late at night. I know for sure though, if I need to seriously think about how to solve a creative problem, I take a shower. Sometimes I've been so stuck, I've taken up to 3 showers a day. I probably need to learn to run instead.
Im most creative in the morning after Ive had a cup of coffee. Im creatively worthless in the evening hours.
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