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.

>>7630554 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEp-7cHc1uc

Most people like the idea of being creative, but aren't willing to put in the long hours. Good artists are just the people who deal with the monotony of all that grinding. A lot of the process is repetitive and boring. You have to really want it, because its too much work for something you're not passionate about.

Also you might want to ask on /lit/ that's where all the creative writers are

>>7630554 (OP)
cringe thread

Howie, you already have a thread. Why make another?

>>7630554 (OP)

>>7630601
I think he kept making these threads on /ic/, /adv/, and /lit/. May be more.

>>7630554 (OP)
>I want to stop wasting my life doing nothing
For starters, stop spamming 4chan with these threads

>>7630554 (OP)
Seems to me that you less require being told how to be creative, and more desperately need to learn how to be disciplined.
You can't even write a bad uncreative story? It doesn't matter what advice we'd give because you wouldn't follow through with it anyway.

>>7630554 (OP)
Ideaguys are technically "creatives". A creative is a person who uses their brain to come up with interesting and unique approaches to things which can be anything. You can be an artist or a musician without being a creative. That's the difference between someone being say, a pianist for a sunday church and a composer, which is someone who creates new music.

The problem most people struggling with art is that they are mentally locked into what they think an artist or a creative should be or what it should look like. Instead of making art, or music, or writing anyway, infatuation with these narrow ideals ends in them not making anything at all- yet the world is full of these people called "outsider artists" with a wonderful disregard for convention. They create because it's what they love to do, not because they are chasing the preconceived ideas of what art is or how it should be made. Creativity is the means, art is just the medium. You can commit to one, the other, or both, but if you do anything, do it because it's what you love to do.

>>7630554 (OP)
You don't "become" a creative. Either you're creative or you're not.

Are the only people replying to these threads his friends or something?

>>7631116
Bold to assume Howie has any friends

you have to begin living life with your new web mentality. everything is related to everything in weird ways, and you have to train yourself to notice those patterns.

if you are in college, this could look like, just for example, a semester of drawing, astronomy, sociology, algebra. You treat the “semester” as the project - not each class as individual projects. Your goal is to figure out how all of these subjects fit together. How do the stars relate to math class and drawing and poverty? Where’s algebra in drawing? sometimes there’s small things, sometimes there’s huge narratives shared by subjects. sometimes this way of study has given me an advantage, sometimes there’s no connection and I waste my time. what is important is the exercise of removing academic subjects from their boxes.

also, “data collection” was the big change in creativity for me. look twice as long at everything. compile data. make lists. rearrange the lists.

a brain is a muscle that needs worked out over time, right? you can change the paths your thinking takes, it just takes time. collect data in weird ways, look for weird patterns constantly.

i’m unemployed tho don’t take me advice

>>7630554 (OP)
If you have ideas and you just don’t have the technical skill or the endurance to realize them then you just have to stop being lazy.
If you don’t even have ideas for things you want to make then you can’t learn that, sorry.

>>7631116
Nah, these threads just bait /beg/ tourists who are enthusiastic to help because "how do I start" is a problem that's at their level. Whatever evil person makes these threads feeds on their good will and gets off in the fact that he monopolizes their attention when they could be drawing.