I need help with how to become more creative...

Question

does anyone have any ideas of what i can do to become more creative and stuff because all the time i wanna do something creative but i always have no idea of what to do.. so i need to be more creative.. plz help!!!!

Answer 1

Its is very hard to be creative in a vacuum.  read books, watch movies, listen to music (I suggest david bowie, berlin era), go for a walk, etc. My favorite is sitting at a pub and just talking to friends or complete stranger, bouncing ideas off of people.

Anthony Pittarelli

Answer 2

Creative for what? Writing? Artwork? Crafts? Design?

Here's 3 of the ways that I try to encourage creativity in myself.

1) Think of a place. It doesn't matter where... forest, supermarket, doctor's office, the moon, whatever. Now think about all the things that are found in this place. Make a list of all the things you can think of, and keep going until you can no longer come up with any more words.

What this will do is help to expand your imagination and make you think about details more, which will give rise to more creativity. Do this during your brainstorming stage for whatever it is you're about to do, even if the place you pick isn't related at all.

2) Mash ideas. Think of one thing. Anything. A country, a handbag, a giraffe, a bicycle wheel. Once you've picked it, think of one more thing that is completely unrelated to the first. Now think about how you could mash those two together. Think about how it would look, or what kind of situation could put them together (for example Britain + Giraffe could be a giraffe in a zoo, but how would it get there? Or it could be giraffes sitting in chairs sipping tea, so how would that look?)

That helps you to think outside the box. To generate ideas that you wouldn't have ever thought of otherwise. All creativity really is, is altering something in a new way, or creating something new out of something usual.

3) Keep a dream journal. This may sound strange, but you'd be surprised at how many good ideas you can get from dreams. So much of my work has been directly inspired from dreams that I've had. It's a source of creativity that not enough people tap into.

Answer 3

You really have to use your mind..