Do you know how to decrease inhibition . . . - Page 3 - Writers Forum

Bettybot · 03-02-2008, 06:51 PM

I think that most people who think they aren't creative are much more creative than they realize. They just don't channel their creativity into art, so they don't notice it. However, you can still see their creativity as they come up with new meals every day, find ways to be thrifty, solve problems in their everyday life, etc. If you are focused on your story and you are thinking about it all the time, then ideas will come to you. You'll be driving to work, or having a coffee with someone, or doing the dishes and an idea will come to you. It will happen all the time. If you are more focused on other things in your life, that's where your creativity will go.

Stonez · 03-02-2008, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike C

I don't think there's any real way. And I don't think drugs increase creativity; if you're not creative in the first place, they don't suddenly turn you into a Byron or Burroughs.

Actually, drugs, empirically, do just fine for inspiring creativity. Writing your hallucinations in a skilled way is an altogether different story. This person, however, does not want to resort to drugs. May I suggest extreme oxygen deprivation? lol. Don't do that, seriously. I do not believe creativity is needed. I think you will find that you will live your entire life in want. If you don't have it, you wish. Writing requires the ability to convey ideas in an appealing manner. Write how you say it in your mind. Write about real life experiences with irony or whatever you feel. At any rate, if you believe that creativity is absolutely needed, you can try to stimulate yourself by creating spontaneous thought cards. An example: The card will say, "Name objects going from smallest to largest." Then you may respond, "Quasars, elements, compounds, star, universe, singularity." Try to keep it going for a length of time. This will aid your quick-wittedness, and, hopefully, inspire creative thinking. Or you can do drugs. Up to you^

The Backward OX · 03-02-2008, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Olly Buckle

I don't know if this thread has done anything for you Ox, but my head is now buzzing with ideas that interfere with what I am trying to write (poem for the challenge)

This's the problem, Olly. My head doesn't buzz anymore. I think what Winner said in a different thread about living in an artsy environment is very relevant. When I listen to the conversation of others around here, it centres on the price of cattle and the rainfall.

lin · 03-02-2008, 10:16 PM

Seriously, the most creative situation in my life is the cusp between wake and sleep. It's like a rupture where the world of concepts and images and ideals spills through.

The wildest shit I've ever had in my head wasn't on an acid trip, it was nodding off, or dozing awake. Anything I can do to hold onto those glimpses always produces paydirt.

The Backward OX · 03-02-2008, 11:26 PM

You're correct, lin. It's a question of being able to grab those insights and jot them down.

Colin Wilson has something to say about this in "Beyond The Occult".

Cipher2 · 03-03-2008, 12:56 PM

A few years back I had a real problem writing anything I considered interesting. Now I have written a character who's voice I can get into quite easily but I dont know what'll happen when that one is finished. I like to use dreams and reality and splice them together somehow. I use a lot of things I actually heard or experienced in my dialogue. Focussing on the character has really helped rather than thinking "what if xxx happened?"