Creative Slump
Posted in Business / Geek by CujoSeptember 20th, 2006 - 11:20 PM
I’m currently in the process of trying to design a site. I’m in the coding phase of a mock up that I have done but I’m in a design/creative slump. I want to be creative but my body and mind are not cooperating. The combination comes from putting this project down and picking it back up and repeating a countless number of times.
I also have some creative endeavours on the go that some of you may know about and some of you will probably be interested in knowing about and I plan on announcing the major one shortly.
I’m in that bad situation again where the work I do during the day is draining me and decaying my creative part of my brain. I’m in a position where I was supposed to only be in for two weeks but it has now been six and I can see more happening and it may continue until November.
The major announcement should help creativity a bit, getting this site out will be a relief, modifying Murderfly Multimedia and adding photography to the offerings on the site would also be a benefit in that regard. People do know I do photography now but I’ve yet to update it on my actual web site — not good form on that there at all.
What do you do to get out of your creative slumps?
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September 21st, 2006 at 11:32 am
I usually try to find inspiration from other sources that can help get me out of my creative slump… OR I share what I am actually doing with other people (who understand the process of what I am doing). I also sometimes lay everything out in front of me so I can get a good look at what I am doing, then I get out my old notes to make sure I am on track or haven’t forgotten my true inspiration which also reminds me of how far I have come.
Also Dairy Queen hot fudge and caramel sundae’s always help me.
September 21st, 2006 at 12:20 pm
Drink Coke…it makes me creative …or crazy
September 21st, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Well, I can tell you a little story about creativity…….So there was this guy who went to his relatives in Georgia….ok, wrong story…try a little Mescalin, I heard that stuff was huge in the 1960’s.
September 21st, 2006 at 9:41 pm
I have sex.
September 21st, 2006 at 10:16 pm
Thanks the the words everyone.
I know what I want to do, I have things laid out it’s just sitting down and doing them right now. Basically the creative part of my brain is slowly dying the longer I stay where I am but the situation is that I need to stay where I am so the creativity keeps fading.
I need an outlet, I need “creative time”. Why can’t there be such a thing as creative time?
September 22nd, 2006 at 4:57 pm
Sure, right after nap time and before tea time
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:10 pm
Creative time? 5:00 am, Curt. Try it.
Ross, that still makes 5:00 am in my world.
Queen, you lucky-ducky. I’ve obviously been married to long….or maybe it has something to do with 5:00 ams.
Jes, Coke at 5:00 am would be a Jolt, fer sure.
Katina, in my experience, no-one much feels like sharing at 5:00 am. If anyone does…call me.
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:12 pm
Sorry Anita, 5 AM is already booked by the hounds. That’s feeding time — aka freeze your ass out of bed to the kitchen to put food in their bowls and let them out and pray they don’t bark/fight and wake the neighbourhood. Maybe I’ll need another time.
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:36 pm
Okay then, time aside, try listening to Yo-Yo Ma.
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:01 pm
Yeah that’s the one thing I haven’t moved to the Mac yet and that’s my music collection — call me lazy on that one.
September 23rd, 2006 at 12:48 am
“Basically the creative part of my brain is slowly dying the longer I stay where I am but the situation is that I need to stay where I am so the creativity keeps fading.”
Seriously, this happens when you do design for a living, too. Working in the creative field is nto the be all and end all of making yo ucreative. it can still suck the life out of you. I blame the clients.
For me what does it is good music and looking through really well designed print work. There’s just something a lot more inspiring about a piece of printed something-or-other that I can hold in my hands and turn it over and really look at.
Getting away from the computer also really helps a lot, too. When I’m really stuck, I’ll sketch out ideas on paper instead of Photoshop.
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:37 am
I’m thinking you’ve touched on my problem in your last sentence. I work 8 hrs a day on the computer at a job I’m dreading going into every morning and then I try to come back home and work on the computer again but on things I want to do and at times it doens’t work out, I need to just get in that zone where things start clicking.
Craig suggested that I need to get a job not in the computer field and then when I get home at the end of the day I’ll want to work on the computer even more, it’s a good idea but considering my background/schooling is in the computer field it may be tough.