How To Make Sure You're At the Peak of Creativity / How To Get Out of An Artist or Writer's Block

Creativity isn't a talent you either have or you don't, it's a skill that you can build with these practices. In reality, of course, any performance reflects a combination of talent and skill. What’s important to remember here, is that your ability to do your best work is something that is always going to peek and wane over time. Sometimes you will find that you are able to maintain concentration, that you can come up with great ideas and that you churn out large quantities of work in no time at all. Then at other times you’ll find that you can’t focus, that no breakthroughs are coming and that you spend entire days sitting in front of your computer or desk staring blankly and getting nothing done.

Perhaps one of the easiest ways to improve the quality of your work then and the experience of completing said work, would be to focus on controlling whenyou get those bursts of creative inspiration so that they coincide with the times you need to do the work. Rather than killing yourself trying to rewire your brain and develop more power, perhaps you could just better apply it to make use of the abilities you already have.

• Relax and Make Yourself Comfortable

what the hell man it's 3am

That's basically the first thing you should learn to do. Do not let yourself fret over deadlines or if you still don't have any idea on what you want to do. Learn to adjust your body first by doing things you're comfortable at! If drinking your favorite tea or taking a nap eases your mood and feelings, then you're doing well on maintaning your body to relax. Making yourself comfortable and ready is key. 

• You Can't Force Creativity

Does staring at a blank sheet of people is keeping at you bay? Do you feel like creativity hasn't come in you yet? Are there times when you can wing an actual article in just half an hour just by mere cramming or you suddenly got a boost on your creative juices? Then that because creativity cannot be forced. You can't keep people forcing them to move forward over and over again at every failure they have. Actually though this will usually have the precise opposite effect of tiring them out, creating more resistance and leading to frustration and an ultimate lack of productivity. 

it's blank..... why is it blank!?!?

Again this tends to just make matters worse. While you might manage to get some work done at 2am that day, you’ll then be going to bed wired, late and stressed. You’ll wake up with insufficient sleep and your brain will be almost incapable of completing any meaningful work until you’ve rested. Even if you manage to continue this cycle of grinding yourself down every day, you’ll find that the quality of the work just isn’t there and that you don’t have the same spark of enthusiasm that equates to the best output.

• Understanding Your Ebbs and Flows

that feel when you know you screwed up....

The better solution then is to acknowledge that your creativity and productivity are going to naturally ebb and flow, and to focus on getting that cycle to line up with the times when you want the most work. Everything you do is a process, and in this process.

• Know What You Have To Do Ahead of Time

HERE IT COMES! HERE IT IS!
IM THINKING UP SOMETHIGN SKDKHGJ!!1!

OK I MADE A DRAFT!! EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE ALRIGHT!

Planning ahead of time and knowing what you want to do and accomplish is really important. When you plan, you're not only preparing your body but also your mind to cooperate with you. Doing things before the deadline helps you develop more ideas to work on your thing. 

• Practice! Practice! Practice!

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What if before anything else it turned out you don't have the skills then? Nobody is born with a skill naturally innate to them, but skills is earned through repeated practice over time. You practice and learn from your mistakes. Every artist I know had to deal with this for years. That artist or author you admire didn't earned their skill over night. Just like everyone else, they had to earn it through years of practice. You can't do something at first without knowing the basics.

• Understanding Yourself

These tips should help you to better control your flow of productivity and creativity and to harness your full potential. To an extent though you are going to find that you have natural tendencies in these areas and that this is all much easier if you try to create a workflow that works with your natural rhythms. Understanding yourself that you're not perfect and that each work you do reflects your hard work.

So the next time you ask yourself why nothings is coming up in you or when you're stuck doing something, just remember these tips I've given. You can't force something because it'll only tend you to do the opposite. Sometimes pushing yourself isn't enough, there is just the right time for everything.

Alenna Pastrana

BSE- English