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Day 3
In your own space, talk about your creative process - from what inspires you to what motivates you to how you manage to break through blocks. Does your process change depending on the type of creating you're doing?
Hmm, I've never really thought about this before.
*ponders*
/tl;dr/
Music inspires me and I like to work on things I find intriguing - prompts, crafts, whatever. :) And I guess my process does stay the same, no matter what sort of creating I'm doing.
In your own space, talk about your creative process - from what inspires you to what motivates you to how you manage to break through blocks. Does your process change depending on the type of creating you're doing?
Hmm, I've never really thought about this before.
*ponders*
It's difficult for me to be creative if there's silence around me, I can't sit quietly somewhere and work on a fic. I need noise - music, the TV, people talking around me, anything because weirdly, if there's silence my thoughts tend to deviate more than when I have noise around me. It's as if music (which I have playing throughout the day) keeps me a little grounded, reminds me that I have something to do and I tend to not get as distracted as I would if there was silence around me. Does that make sense? I don't think so. :/
Music is a big source of inspiration for me. Almost all my fics have a song associated with them that I had playing constantly in the background. And it's not even only with fics, sometimes when RL's really stressful and I need a break from my emotions I like to plug in my headphones and start a DIY project because being creative, for me, is like an outlet. Most of my pent up emotions/thoughts/worries whatever, I release by creating something - it can be anything really, from a collage to small cards that I send to friends over the world to really bad jewellery to fics.
Fics have definitely taken up most of my time and I find them to be a great way to just forget RL for some time. Though ofc, even the creative process can get stressful, like writing was for most of last year, and that's when I step back and maybe just breathe for a while. idk, now that I'm thinking about it I actually intrigued about what inspires me to write, or be creative in any other way.
I think one aspect is intrigue. Most times when I choose a prompt to write it's because I found it intriguing. Like with my hurt fest fic last year, I was curious to see how Draco would overcome his situation and emerge stronger at the end of it. I know that makes it sound like I had no idea how the fic would turn out and I didn't. I don't plan fics out, ever. There's always just a beginning, and maybe an ending that I have in mind with a few middle scenes thrown in, but more often than not I have no clue how my fic will turn out. I'll start writing from a point that I found interesting in the prompt and that's it, mostly I'm going to end up changing tracks at the last minute. :D
Ditto for all other craft work I do, like this collage below (it's rough, I know, I made it a week after my aunt passed away and I just really wanted to make something with my own hands for her), it was never intended to be this way. I started with one star and then made another, 'cause glitter is fun, and the checker squares were all made from left over fabric that I had after I made a felt board for my room. All of it was meant to be a part of another, larger piece that I have covering half a wall in my room. And the intrigue was always there - what will happen if I mix glitter with paint? What if I add fabric? Can I make something like this? How will it look??
Music is a big source of inspiration for me. Almost all my fics have a song associated with them that I had playing constantly in the background. And it's not even only with fics, sometimes when RL's really stressful and I need a break from my emotions I like to plug in my headphones and start a DIY project because being creative, for me, is like an outlet. Most of my pent up emotions/thoughts/worries whatever, I release by creating something - it can be anything really, from a collage to small cards that I send to friends over the world to really bad jewellery to fics.
Fics have definitely taken up most of my time and I find them to be a great way to just forget RL for some time. Though ofc, even the creative process can get stressful, like writing was for most of last year, and that's when I step back and maybe just breathe for a while. idk, now that I'm thinking about it I actually intrigued about what inspires me to write, or be creative in any other way.
I think one aspect is intrigue. Most times when I choose a prompt to write it's because I found it intriguing. Like with my hurt fest fic last year, I was curious to see how Draco would overcome his situation and emerge stronger at the end of it. I know that makes it sound like I had no idea how the fic would turn out and I didn't. I don't plan fics out, ever. There's always just a beginning, and maybe an ending that I have in mind with a few middle scenes thrown in, but more often than not I have no clue how my fic will turn out. I'll start writing from a point that I found interesting in the prompt and that's it, mostly I'm going to end up changing tracks at the last minute. :D
Ditto for all other craft work I do, like this collage below (it's rough, I know, I made it a week after my aunt passed away and I just really wanted to make something with my own hands for her), it was never intended to be this way. I started with one star and then made another, 'cause glitter is fun, and the checker squares were all made from left over fabric that I had after I made a felt board for my room. All of it was meant to be a part of another, larger piece that I have covering half a wall in my room. And the intrigue was always there - what will happen if I mix glitter with paint? What if I add fabric? Can I make something like this? How will it look??
Another thing I've realised last year is that I can't force myself to be creative. I've tried so hard when I had fics due and my mind was at a blank but it was so stressful and I'm not at all happy with what I created then.
And also . . *scrolls up the screen*
This got way longer than I expected. :|
And also . . *scrolls up the screen*
This got way longer than I expected. :|
Music inspires me and I like to work on things I find intriguing - prompts, crafts, whatever. :) And I guess my process does stay the same, no matter what sort of creating I'm doing.
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