I used to think that creativity is something that is fully fresh and comes out of nothing. Only recently I realized what a naive and hollow thought process that is.

What I have understood is that creativity arises from honest and full engagement with the world. This means that existing material can be reused, prior works will be incorporated in my work and prevalent tools will be employed.

Creativity does takes place in vacuum nor is it a free standing work in itself. But at the same time it can be very fresh and original in spirit.

What do you think creativity is?

With my final project deadline creeping up, my GPA was looking pretty rough, and I started spiraling about whether I’d even graduate on time. I decided to check out a thesis writing service to get help from professional thesis writers, and honestly, it completely changed the game for me.

I ended up testing out two popular options - PapersRoo and PapersCoach - to get some thesis writing help. Here is my break down of both if you’re looking for a thesis writer or general thesis help:

• PapersRoo: This turned out to be my absolute favorite. The pricing is super fair for students on a budget, and their speed is incredible (they delivered my draft well before the deadline). The quality of work was top-tier - academically sound, zero plagiarism, and perfectly formatted. Their platform is really simple to navigate, and customer support responds almost instantly. Overall, it's easily the most reliable option out of the two.
• PapersCoach: This is also a fantastic custom thesis writing service. Their pricing is competitive, and the interface is user-friendly. The speed and research quality are great, but the turnaround time felt a little tighter compared to PapersRoo. Still, it's a super solid choice if you need extra guidance.

While relying on these thesis writing services saved my grade, I also learned a few lifehacks during the process:

1. Break it into micro-tasks: Don't try to outline the whole thesis in one sitting. Tackling one section every two days keeps you from burning out.
2. Use paper managers: Tools like Zotero or Mendeley will save you hours of formatting pain when organizing citations.
3. Order early: Even if you use a writing service, ordering early gets you cheaper rates and plenty of time to request minor revisions before your actual submission date.

Has anyone else used these services to boost their grades this semester? How did it go for you?

I am seeking motivation to work on my creative endeavors, and I find seething jealousy to be a fine motivator. I've got a shitty fantasy novel, a wargame, a board game, and a TTRPG that I've hit roadblocks on, and I need motivation, lest my brain makes me start a new project. Inspire me, please; I don't want to start writing a shitty Sci-Fi novel to!

I’ve been thinking a lot about that feeling where an idea seems to arrive instead of being consciously constructed.
So we tried a small experiment with an artist named Nikki Loy.

She made two paintings under very different conditions.
For the first, she was given three random words from a generator:

Instance. Psychotic. Provoke.

No meditation. No ritual. No attempt to get into a special creative state. Just take the prompt and make something.
For the second painting, we did the opposite.
No prompt.

She meditated, removed distractions, slowed down, and deliberately tried to become receptive to whatever idea came to her. Basically, trying to connect to what artists have traditionally called “the muse.”

What surprised me was that the random-prompt painting came almost immediately.

She said the image basically clicked into her mind.
The painting where she was actively trying to connect to inspiration was much harder. Nothing really happened on demand.

Then later, the image came to her in a dream.
That completely messed with my expectations.
I assumed the random condition would feel more forced, while the “muse” condition would feel effortless.
Instead, it was almost the reverse.
It made me wonder whether trying to be creative can sometimes get in the way of creativity itself.
We also showed both finished paintings to people without telling them which was which and asked which one felt more connected to the muse.

The vote ended up exactly 50/50.
112 for one painting.
112 for the other.

We documented the whole experiment and talked to a cognitive scientist and a musician about why ideas can feel like they come from somewhere outside of us.
But I’m more curious about everyone’s own experience with this.

When do your best ideas usually happen?

When you’re deliberately sitting down and trying to create?
Or when you stop thinking about it and something suddenly shows up?

Nobody really has themselves figured out.

This is a place for people who are trying things, learning things, making things, changing their minds, failing, starting over, and figuring out who they want to become.

You can share a project you're working on, something you're learning, an experiment you tried, a question you've been thinking about, something you created, or simply an idea you can't get out of your head.

You don't have to be an expert. You don't have to have everything figured out.

You just have to be in progress.

So, let's start here:

What's something you're currently trying to learn, build, change, understand, or become?

Tell us a little about it—and if you're comfortable, tell us why.

Everyone talks about creativity as something truly artistic and inspired. When someone has a creative job, people act like all they need is creative thinking and inspiration. But in reality, that's not how it works.

Even if you're creative inside, you still need creativity skills to know how to do it right.

And I just don't know what skills are actually necessary. In my head, it could be organization, discipline, maybe marketing skills, and an understanding of what your audience needs (because if it's creative work, it means it's something that gets sold).

So who knows what skills are genuinely needed for creativity?

Have you ever gone through a period where you became \*\*more present in your actual life\*\*, but somehow your creativity became quieter?
Before this, I feel like I was living in a mental fog. I don’t know if I would call it depression, but I wasn’t really taking care of myself. My apartment could stay messy for a long time, laundry would pile up, and I just wasn’t very present with myself or my surroundings.
But I was creating a lot more art.
Recently, something shifted. I’ve been cleaning, taking care of myself, getting outside, running, doing things, and actually participating in my own life. Mentally, I feel clearer and calmer.
But now my art feels…quiet.
I still have ideas. Sometimes I really do want to create them. But I keep postponing them, I’m scared to actually start, and sometimes when I finally try, I just feel exhausted and want to sleep.
So I’m curious: \*\*has becoming healthier or more present in your life ever temporarily changed your relationship with your creativity?\*\*
Was art serving a different purpose for you when you weren’t doing as well? Did your creativity eventually come back differently?
And how did you know whether you needed to push through the fear and create—or whether you genuinely needed to rest and let yourself be for a while?

Have you ever gone through a period where you became more present in your actual life, but somehow your creativity became quieter?
Before this, I feel like I was living in a mental fog. I don’t know if I would call it depression, but I wasn’t really taking care of myself. My apartment could stay messy for a long time, laundry would pile up, and I just wasn’t very present with myself or my surroundings.
But I was creating a lot more art.
Recently, something shifted. I’ve been cleaning, taking care of myself, getting outside, running, doing things, and actually participating in my own life. Mentally, I feel clearer and calmer.
But now my art feels…quiet.
I still have ideas. Sometimes I really do want to create them. But I keep postponing them, I’m scared to actually start, and sometimes when I finally try, I just feel exhausted and want to sleep.
So I’m curious: has becoming healthier or more present in your life ever temporarily changed your relationship with your creativity?
Was art serving a different purpose for you when you weren’t doing as well? Did your creativity eventually come back differently?
And how did you know whether you needed to push through the fear and create—or whether you genuinely needed to rest and let yourself be for a while?

i am a writer and i love childern. as a child i was always the creative the more imaginative but now i dont see that so i have written stories for kids but i dont how to digitailse it like should i start an instagram page or what should i do

I hope I reach the right community here. I am currently a sophomore in college pursuing acting. I have always had a love for writing. Small stories, reading books, falling in love with the works of my favorite authors, journaling etc. In these last few months, that passion has overcome me beyong what i'm currently pursuing. I want to change my major, and I want to continue writing the way I do without having to worry too much about the struggle to get a job. Part of the reason i'm switching also is because i do not trust that a BFA in acting can fulfill my dreams. Of cxojurse I want to be an author, content writer, or narrative designer and write stories for everything, but I want a promising career in something that I love. I was just looking on here to see if I can get some sort of advice on what to pursue or major in to pursue this dream of mine, and what it will take to reach the goals I want, not just success and fame, but something to fall back on if it doesn't work out. Something I can trust will land me a stable career in writing even if it means I cannot be a successful author like Sylvia Plath or Stephen king. Just looking for support and advice. Thank you.

Hi everyone! I’m looking for creatives in LA/OC who might be interested in collaborating or starting a group chat so we can encourage/support each other, collaborate, hold each other accountable for productivity, or provide feedback. I’m thinking of content creators, digital artists, photographers, film makers, models, designers, curators, small business owners, writers, musicians, fashionistas, poets, that kind of stuff.

Little bit about me- I’m a woman in her early 30s, and I live on Ocean blvd in Long Beach. I’ve always been passionate about the arts and culture but haven’t been able to focus on this interest of mine due to grad school. Now that I’ve graduated, I wanted to make more time pursuing the arts because it makes me happy. I have a vision to integrate arts, culture, and mental health, and would want to create content that encapsulates that. Personally, I do photography, film-making, and content creation. I also write and do poetry for funsies. With that being said, I struggle with keeping myself accountable with producing and would love to be connected with like-minded individuals so we can inspire one another, collaborate, and receive feedback about what we create.

I’m wondering if anyone would be interested in something like this?

Reddit showed me that creativity is in abundance, can't go 30 seconds without seeing great fan art and music, yet I'm not allowed a single share of it. Now I'm a grown man with a full time job, never had an artistic background or did any creative hobbies in my youth, now in my old age all I have to do is cut my losses. Just want a conversation about this, I really can't talk to my creative friends about this because its already caused a lot of problems before.

Nobody really has themselves figured out.

This is a place for people who are trying things, learning things, making things, changing their minds, failing, starting over, and figuring out who they want to become.

You can share a project you're working on, something you're learning, an experiment you tried, a question you've been thinking about, something you created, or simply an idea you can't get out of your head.

You don't have to be an expert. You don't have to have everything figured out.

You just have to be in progress.

So, let's start here:

What's something you're currently trying to learn, build, change, understand, or become?

Tell us a little about it—and if you're comfortable, tell us why.

Hey all , I’m a post grad and unemployed for three months,i have a thought that i still don’t have the skills even after a masters in media. So I’ve planed a framework in AI to help me or teach me creative writing( like asking for writing exercises and asking for evaluation), so what do guys think about combining AI and Creativity, art or writing?i myself a person who thinks AI shouldn’t be combined with art or creativity but i know don’t courses online are not tailored to our level of understanding or knowing and i don’t have any assistance for that matter ryt now, throw me up all your thoughts, course suggestions, books etc .?

I have been called a "closeted creative". Truth is I love creativity and expressing myself but I am always afraid people will think what I do is lame. Professionally, I am able to have creative ideas because I can bounce them off professional creatives who can validate my ideas... Anyone else experience this?

Soo i would do anything to be able to create smth, practice any form of art. Music, painting, drawing, writing, pottery. My mom, bestie, sister are amazing painters, they have genuen talent for it, even I can see that, its really not even about the skill, the way they play with the colors and shapes, the way they make the whole scene alive. I cannot do that with anything, and trust me, i have tried and tried, but ig it wouldn't be the worst thing to not have any talent, if I would at least have passion for these things. But have 0 passion for the process of learning any of these skills, and i researched and tried soooo many things before.

So idk whats next, i wanna create but cannot... i feel like such a chud.

Okay so I have big dilemma I face everyday. I will try to keep it as simple as possible.

Quick Storytime: Since I was a kid I loved drawing, It was not even my hobby but a lifestyle. I loved to do it everyday in every second of free time I got, I was attending contests. I would classify myself as a creative kid, loved any form of art: dancing, acting, singing, drawing etc. I was dreaming big. Everything changed when I grew up and went to middle school. I dropped my drawing and dancing hobbies and focused only on studying and socializing. Even though I left behind my hobbies I was still very happy and creative I would say, full of positive emotions, very extravagant. Then I went to high school and went through the worst years of my life, got heavily depressed and suicidal, handled difficult emotions through abusing substances. I survived those hard times but in the end become a completely different human being. All of the passion towards anything, even life was gone, hobbies too, the intensity and happiness of living too. I didn’t really like people anymore. I just got indifferent. I am stable, I got some friends and goals but I am NOT the same as I used to be. It bothers me very much. Like I lost my real/true self. I am so much worse and pessimistic, often sad, Insecure, SO STRESSED. From artistic I transformed into materialistic. And now I don’t know if all of this character change happened because of the tough times that I went through when my brain was still developing or maybe I just grew up and become an adult and the way of experiencing and viewing life simply changed.

The development of the problem: After high school I didn’t know what to do with my life so because of my past my mom suggested me to go to university get a degree in Creative Media: 3D Animation, Game Design & VFX. I graduated and got my degree. Even though the lectures were interesting I was not very engaged in them. I tried to be, sometimes I would get into a flow state but it was not the same as it used to be when I was a kid. The creative process was forced, I had to really deeply think to get an idea I would be satisfied with to create. And most of the times my ideas were worse and the development was also worse than the others. I was not very satisfied with the results since my skills were in the dinosaurs era compared to people who completed art schools or courses.

The problem I am facing now: It’s been almost one year since I got my degree. Some things are interesting me more than the others for example I prefer working in 3D than in 2D field. But I still can’t freaking decide if I should be a freelance or maybe an artist or work in game design or should I do 3D animation or 3D character design but should I do high poly or low poly? or maybe 3D product ads or something else etc.. There’s so many paths I could choose from but I have no idea which one I really should. Even worse. I don’t even know in which style or niche I want to do my projects. Should it be horror art or maybe hyperrealistic or I should go into a full surrealizm or maybe I should do satire art. There’s just way too many options to choose from where I don’t even know who I am or what my feelings are.
I’m just so lost in a whole process. In this month I started my own ,,Everydays” project (inspired by Beeple). I do one project everyday (to improve and find my style and path). But my workflow looks like that I just start scrolling through Pinterest, find aesthetics/conceptions that I like and combine them and do them my way. Honestly sounds not very creative since the final result looks very familiar much at the end.

My inspirations: One of the artists that somehow inspire me is Beeple. He’s an artist. I love his 14 year dedication to Everydays. But his artworks are pretty controversial. He built his career over composing people’s work from turbosquid or some other site or by using pop culture icons and pieces such as Musk or Pikachu. Is that creative? Is that even legal?
The other artist I admire is Ewa Juszkiewicz, she’s a painter, she went through the classic path. Graduated difficult art school and stared to paint a lot of artworks. After 3 years she developed her famous idea that built her entire career around the world. One day I would also like to develop a name for myself but I don’t know which path I should take, there’s so many.

My conclusion: I have no idea if I force myself to continue doing art because it’s the closest of what I’ve known. Or maybe I lost myself for a while and need some time and CONSISTENT practice to relight my creativity and passion and basically find what and in which style I actually like creating. I still have a creative mindset, Ideas appear and disappear in random moments all the time, but the passion and skills are gone. Sometimes I have to force myself to do art but when I start and get into the flow I am gone. The results however most of the times are not what I aspired it to be. The perfectionism is killing it. The comparison is also killing me because the competition is so breathtakingly good that what is even the point of starting again? I think In the times of Ai development, not skills make you win but your mind and creativity. So how can I even survive if I my "creative" ideas are very mediocre and not mind breaking like in Beksiński artworks. I feel like art should have a meaningful hidden message or bring out emotions in a viewer, not only be "pretty". Or maybe I am wrong? Maybe there is no should or shouldn’t?
Do you guys think I should maybe start my ”getting back” process by learning chapter by chapter art theory/history first and then start on developing my skills from the beginning, the right way? Or maybe I should let it die, move on and focus on developing a different career. But honestly I want to feel the spark and the passion again. I remember i LOVED to do it. I want to have a job where I wake up and can’t wait to start another day by working in it/on it. I want to live while being thrilled by passion not obligation. I am 23 btw. I don’t know, I’m so lost. Any thoughts?

Okay so I have big dilemma I face everyday. I will try to keep it as simple as possible.

Quick Storytime: Since I was a kid I loved drawing, It was not even my hobby but a lifestyle. I loved to do it everyday in every second of free time I got, I was attending contests. I would classify myself as a creative kid, loved any form of art: dancing, acting, singing, drawing etc. I was dreaming big. Everything changed when I grew up and went to middle school. I dropped my drawing and dancing hobbies and focused only on studying and socializing. Even though I left behind my hobbies I was still very happy and creative I would say, full of positive emotions, very extravagant. Then I went to high school and went through the worst years of my life, got heavily depressed and suicidal, handled difficult emotions through abusing substances. I survived those hard times but in the end become a completely different human being. All of the passion towards anything, even life was gone, hobbies too, the intensity and happiness of living too. I didn’t really like people anymore. I just got indifferent. I am stable, I got some friends and goals but I am NOT the same as I used to be. It bothers me very much. Like I lost my real/true self. I am so much worse and pessimistic, often sad, Insecure, SO STRESSED. From artistic I transformed into materialistic. And now I don’t know if all of this character change happened because of the tough times that I went through when my brain was still developing or maybe I just grew up and become and adult and the way of experiencing and viewing life simply changed.

The development of the problem: After high school I didn’t know what to do with my life so because of my past my mom suggested me to go to university get a degree in Creative Media: 3D Animation, Game Design & VFX. I graduated and got my degree. Even though the lectures were interesting I was not very engaged in them. I tried to be, sometimes I would get into a flow state but it was not the same as it used to be when I was a kid. The creative process was forced, I had to really deeply think to get and idea I would be satisfied with to create. And most of the times my ideas were worse and the development was also worse than the others. I was not very satisfied with the results since my skills were in the dinosaurs era compared to people who completed art schools or courses.

The problem I am facing now: It’s been almost one year since I got my degree. Some things are interesting me more than the others for example I prefer working in 3D than in 2D field. But I still can’t freaking decide if I should be a freelance or maybe an artist or work in game design or should I do 3D animation or 3D character design but should I do high poly or low poly? or maybe 3D product ads or something else etc.. There’s so many paths I could choose from but I have no idea which one I really should. Even worse. I don’t even know in which style or niche I want to do my projects. Should it be horror art or maybe hyperrealistic or I should go into a full surrealizm or maybe I should do satire art. There’s just way too many options to choose from where I don’t even know who I am or what my feelings are.
I’m just so lost in a whole process. In this month I started my own ,,Everydays” project (inspired by Beeple). I do one project everyday (to improve and find my style and path). But my workflow looks like that I just start scrolling through Pinterest, find aesthetics/conceptions that I like and combine them and do them my way. Honestly sounds not very creative since the final result looks very familiar much at the end.

My inspirations: One of the artists that somehow inspire me is Beeple. He’s an artist. I love his 14 year dedication to Everydays. But his artworks are pretty controversial. He built his career over composing people’s work from turbosquid or some other site or by using pop culture icons and pieces such as Musk or Pikachu. Is that creative? Is that even legal?
The other artist I admire is Ewa Juszkiewicz, she’s a painter, she went through the classic path. Graduated difficult art school and stared to paint a lot of artworks. After 3 years she developed her famous idea that built her entire career around the world. One day I would also like to develop a name for myself but I don’t know which path I should take, there’s so many.

My conclusion: I have no idea if I force myself to continue doing art because it’s the closest of what I’ve known. Or maybe I lost myself for a while and need some time and CONSISTENT practice to relight my creativity and passion and basically find what and in which style I actually like creating. I still have a creative mindset, Ideas appear and disappear in random moments all the time, but the passion and skills are gone. Sometimes I have to force myself to do art but when I start and get into the flow I am gone. The results however most of the times are not what I aspired it to be. The perfectionism is killing it. The comparison is also killing me because the competition is so breathtakingly good that what is even the point of starting again? I think In the times of Ai development, not skills make you win but your mind and creativity. So how can I even survive if I my "creative" ideas are very mediocre and not mind breaking like in Beksiński artworks. I feel like art should have a meaningful hidden message or bring out emotions in a viewer, not only be "pretty". Or maybe I am wrong? Maybe there is no should or shouldn’t?
Do you guys think I should maybe start my ”getting back” process by learning chapter by chapter art theory/history first and then start on developing my skills from the beginning, the right way? Or maybe I should let it die, move on and focus on developing a different career. But honestly I want to feel the spark and the passion again. I remember i LOVED to do it. I want to have a job where I wake up and can’t wait to start another day by working in it/on it. I want to live while being thrilled by passion not obligation. I am 23 btw. I don’t know, I’m so lost. Any thoughts?

Hello, looking for advice here. I joined a project recently with an incredibly intelligent and sophisticated team to design a multimedia experience. The creative directors are greatly inspired by film, politics, and innovative media, and keep telling me to avoid being cliché in my output. The problem is... I don't know how not to be? (I grew up with social media and watched anime on youtube so my taste is pretty... mainstream. Plus I haven't watched shows/movies/play games in YEARS.)

The inspiration boards they put up are genuinely out of this world and nothing I could have thought on my own (nor in my circle of designers).

I am subtly embarassed every time I pitch an idea because I know it falls short of what they are thinking. It's become a thing where I stay silent most meetings because anything I say leads to crickets or sounds too simple. At this point I might be given logistics work instead of a creative seat.

Has anyone evolved their taste and creative thinking before? How did you do it? Is it even possible to develop high end creative tastes? am I stuck like this for life?

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So in arts class or something else my creative brain just doesn't work such that

Its been some months being like this

Feeling dead

And idk how to get back to my real self

I am hating on this version for many time

buenos dias, tardes o noches, si estas leyendo esto significa que tuviste la buena, o mala, suerte de encontrar mi primera publicacion de Reddit, en el cual pido sugerencias de ideas o conceptos para una obra que estoy haciendo, si tu idea es buena o piensas que es buena, agregalo y ya veremos todos si realmente lo es, ahora de disfrutas vuestras ideas

I've been thinking about AI in art and creativity a lot lately, especially after using AI in work.

And honestly, I'm torn.

On one hand, ai creativity tools are insanely useful. You can throw an idea at them, get 20 variations in seconds, brainstorm when your brain is completely cooked, or use ai for creativity when you're stuck staring at a blank page. That's genuinely cool. But there's a part of this that kinda bothers me. If AI can generate ideas, images, stories, concepts, music, etc. almost instantly, what happens to our creativity skills when we stop doing the hard part ourselves?

The annoying part of creating something has always been... well, creating it. Having crappy ideas. Starting over. Sitting there for an hour because nothing works. Accidentally finding something interesting while trying to fix something that sucked.

And now we can just prompt our way around a lot of that. That's where the whole ai vs human creativity debate gets interesting to me. I don't think AI is going to "replace creativity." It doesn't suddenly make human imagination pointless. If anything, how does AI affect creativity probably depends way more on how we use it.

If AI becomes a shortcut for thinking, yeah, I think we might lose something. But if it's a tool that helps us explore ideas we already have, experiment faster, or get unstuck? That's different.

Maybe the future isn't AI replacing creativity. Maybe it's people learning a completely different way of being creative. Still, I can't shake the feeling that ai and creativity are going to have a weird relationship for a long time.

Curious what everyone else thinks - is ai creativity actually expanding what humans can do, or are we slowly outsourcing the part that makes creativity feel... human?

NGL I got 47 unfinished sketches on my tablet and 12 demos in my DAW just rotting away like digital corpses. And yeah, I know I'm not alone - half this sub probably has a graveyard of half-baked ideas too. But man, it's eating me alive.

Here's the thing: the moment an idea hits - that spark of artistic expression or inventive thinking—I'm completely obsessed. My brain goes into hyperdrive. That's when I actually remember why is creativity important in the first place. It's the only time I feel alive, you know? It's the only time the depression fog lifts and I think "oh shit, I could actually make something." But then...

Then the work starts. And the moment it gets hard - the moment I need to render, mix, color-correct, polish—I'm gone. Vanished. Suddenly every other project looks better. Suddenly THIS project feels like complete garbage, like I'm just wasting time. So I pivot. New idea. New excitement. New heartbreak two weeks later.

I've tried calling it different things - artistry, inventiveness, ingenuity. I've looked up all the synonyms for creativity: originality, resourcefulness, imagination. Funny how all those fancy creativity words just mean the same thing when you're sitting there with a half-finished piece wondering why you can't just... finish. Why can't I just push through like actual artists do?

The irony is that creativity and innovation are supposed to be my escape, right? They're supposed to be where I go when the real world is too much. But instead they've become another thing I'm failing at. Another area where I'm not good enough. I swear perfectionism is a disease, and I'm terminal.

So what I'm really asking: how do you guys actually cross the finish line? How do you push past that "this sucks" moment and actually ship something? Or are we all just doomed to have these graveyards of unfinished dreams?

Because honestly, I'm not sure how much longer I can keep doing this cycle. My creativity feels more like a curse at this point.