Thread 33609941

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Anonymous 9/3/2025, 11:43:48 PM No.33609941 >>33609988 >>33610295 >>33611126

How do I become a creative?

I've always wanted to be a creative ever since I was young. I've day dreamed about being one and tried working my ass off trying to write ever since I was around 12. My parents tried pushing me towards it for school assignments. I also wanted to draw but never got into it seriously.

I've been wanting to write again for nearly 2 years now and have barely made any progress towards that goal. I've only done one little drabble like 2 years ago and haven't done any exercises since then. I've been trying to get myself to write, but all of it looks too complicated and exhausting for me. I've tried multiple different strategies, but they never seem to work. I've tried forcing myself to write, but can only make myself write a couple of sentences for barely 30 seconds before stopping and looking at my phone again.

I've never been able to complete a single multichapter story in my entire life and actually coming up with stories isn't much better. I can't think anything through and everything about trying to make an entire story looks too hard for me. I want to be a creative really badly, but nothing I've done seems to have amounted to much of anything. I want to become one so badly, and I want to stop wasting my life doing nothing.

Anonymous 9/3/2025, 11:47:35 PM No.33609962 >>33609976 >>33610012

If you can't bring yourself to write then you're not particularly interested in it, find something else creative to do, but you will need some mechanical skill before creativity can flow.

Did you repost this by the way? If you can't even write a compelling thing such that people are interested in your thread - how can you expect to do well in writing?

Anonymous 9/3/2025, 11:51:17 PM No.33609976

>>33609962
Yeah I've heard this about basically every single hobby I've tried. I've tried multiple of them. Writing, drawing, Source Filmmaker, FireAlpaca, Gamemaker, and EVERY SINGLE TIME I have trouble, I get this exact same spiel from somebody.

Even when I look art guides, I literally cannot comprehend them or figure them out. I don't want to be stuck with no creativity or being unable to express myself. This is what it's like for literally everything I try doing. I'm not able to try and keep up with any hobby. Even writing, I do it sporadically and very rarely. Stop giving me this reductionist bullshit.

I'm not here to get attention, I'm not here because I "secretly don't like doing anything creative" I'm here because I want to fucking draw, write and make something. Now are you going to give me advice or not?

Anonymous 9/3/2025, 11:54:22 PM No.33609988

>>33609941 (OP)
Howie thread, do net engage.

Anonymous 9/3/2025, 11:59:00 PM No.33610012

>>33609962
Metabump: OP is probably Howie (infamous genuinely mentally ill spammer). Do not engage.

Satan 9/4/2025, 1:14:24 AM No.33610295 >>33610325 >>33610542

>>33609941 (OP)
I would consider you a creative, seeing as you want to create stuff but are currently under a mental block, what strategies have you tried so far?

Anonymous 9/4/2025, 1:21:46 AM No.33610325

>>33610295
stop bumping your own thread howie

Anonymous 9/4/2025, 2:22:36 AM No.33610542 >>33610682

>>33610295
I've tried mostly just brute forcing it. I can only write or draw when I'm under 100% perfect conditions. My ADHD makes me that way.

Satan 9/4/2025, 2:48:59 AM No.33610682 >>33610698

>>33610542
Brute forcing it can lead you to burn out, and that can make everything harder, rest properly for a day or two and try again sometime later. One thing that helped me out early on was to set some easy goals, maybe you can try to write a short story or draw some charicatures and slowy build your way towards doing more complex stuff.

Anonymous 9/4/2025, 2:51:33 AM No.33610698 >>33610848

Hat_Kid_Sketch2.png md5: cfb1e5cf... 🔍

>>33610682
The problem is that I can't even make myself do that because I either don't know what I'm doing or can't make myself. Currently, I've been drawing some sketches, but that's about all I've done. Even writing a short story feels like it's too much for me.

Satan 9/4/2025, 3:16:51 AM No.33610848 >>33610879

>>33610698
If writing and drawing is too much, your brain needs to rest properly, your mental health matters to your art, and everything needs a break every once in a while. If you don't know what you're doing reading or watching videos about the stuff you want to make can help you out, and honestly, even if you think you can't make something out, you should still give it a shot, it's always worth to try.

Nice sketch btw

Anonymous 9/4/2025, 3:23:05 AM No.33610879

>>33610848
I feel like I'm too overstimulated by my phone and the internet is the problem, along with me being distracted. And thanks.

Anonymous 9/4/2025, 3:42:03 AM No.33610981

>retarded namefag bumps posted daily bait
Kys

Anonymous 9/4/2025, 3:43:28 AM No.33610986 >>33610994 >>33611077 >>33614794

Howie thread.
OP constantly reposts this.
OP has had many people offer help.
OP refuses to consider any advice.
OP does not actually want to change.
DO NOT ENGAGE.

Recent reposts in july alone:

I can't keep living like this
https://archive.4plebs.org/adv/thread/30464066

giving up on everything
https://archive.4plebs.org/adv/thread/30455379

I can't live like this
https://archive.4plebs.org/adv/thread/30460094

I don't want to live like this
https://archive.4plebs.org/adv/thread/30446512

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https://archive.4plebs.org/adv/thread/30424329/

Anonymous 9/4/2025, 3:44:28 AM No.33610994 >>33611077 >>33614794

Anonymous 9/4/2025, 4:01:50 AM No.33611077

>>33610986
>>33610994
Thnx king

Anonymous 9/4/2025, 4:10:22 AM No.33611126

>>33609941 (OP)
You will never be a creative
You're a loser who gets off on negative attention from strangers online because you're so starved for attention that ANY attention literally makes you happy
You will never be a creative
You will never be a woman

Anonymous 9/4/2025, 9:56:19 PM No.33614702

Bump

Anonymous 9/4/2025, 10:16:19 PM No.33614794 >>33615569 >>33615843

>>33610986
>>33610994
How do you just have this on hand? How much time do you spend on /adv/ in hours per day?

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 1:16:00 AM No.33615569

>>33614794
This guy is also on /ic/ posting almost everyday for years
It's really annoying

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 2:18:21 AM No.33615843

>>33614794
Cataloguing your autism is a public service Howie
You’re welcome

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 6:16:14 PM No.33619029