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Creating by habit as opposed to by inspiration
There’s a chart I added below that’s helped me become an overall better creative. Inspiration comes and goes and often times is so flimsy that you can’t even trust it once it arrives! But being in the habit of creating breeds consistency. Creating for the sake of creating helps you develop a more efficient system + allows you understand yourself better. What happens when you create by habit is that eventually inspiration will hit and when it does you’ll have been expecting it and prepared for it. An inspired moment combined with a system built on habit breeds amazing, truly inspired works of genius. As someone who picked up writing two months ago and is now doing 2-3 articles a week for a newsletter, I’ve learned that I have to write regardless of whether inspiration is there or not. And when I do that, I often find myself getting inspired in the process of habit. Final thought is that someone once told me creativity ebbs and flows and to get the good ideas out you need to release the bad ones. This means you have to create over and over and over to push out the crap and get to the gold. This only happens if you get into a habit of creating. Hope this helps!
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@marianoleonczik
Apr 11, 2024
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@croissantmmm
I needed this fr!!
Jan 29, 2025
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@marianoleonczik
croissantmmm every time someone leaves a comment on this post it makes me reread it + it reinspires me. Thank YOU for that!
Jan 29, 2025
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@flop
consistency is key! i'm gonna make this a big goal. thank u!
Apr 12, 2024
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@marianoleonczik
flop YES! But I’d recommend making it a small goal; big goals are weighty. A big goal should be like “Use my habitual creativity habits to create something wonderful when inspiration hits” — you can work towards that. Set a small goal for yourself. My current small goal Is inspired by Matt McCormick and his western doodles, so now I’m doing 3 cowboy sketches a week. They’re not great! They’re plain! Boring! But I feel that inspiration looming around the corner and I know once it hits…I’m about to drW the coolest cowboy the world has ever seen.
Apr 12, 2024
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@flop
marianoleonczik hell yeah. yee haw
Apr 12, 2024
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@kopfschmertzen
Ahhh I neeeeed it
Apr 11, 2024
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@marianoleonczik
kopfschmertzen YOU GOT THIS! Habits are easy! You form them by doing them! And you don’t even have to do them well!!!!!!!! Just keep showing up and you’ll see the progress flow.
Apr 12, 2024
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@lucius
Yuuup. I have to set aside an hour immediately after work to stay in the groove.
Apr 11, 2024
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@marianoleonczik
lucius This is brilliant. I can’t do right after work because my brain is still unwinding but that late night “I have to be in bed in an hour let me dumb a days worth of thoughts into this sketch or writing prompt“ time is pure bliss.
Apr 12, 2024

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Never wait until you feel inspired
I think a lot of us think of idea generation as separate from creating, and that in order to create, we need a good idea to execute on. I try to remember that creating is actually a mode of idea generation, that sometimes sitting down to make things opens our brains to inspiration instead of the other way around. So I think the thing is just to make time and space to get into a focused state to make things — and specifically to make BAD things without having a plan or a great idea beforehand.
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@beatrix
Oct 29, 2024
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Just do it, on a schedule, Eliminate distraction, Reduce friction, watch how your inputs influence your outputs
General hell yeah to the previous recs. I mentioned The War of Art earlier today and it addresses specifically this question, if you feel reading a book would help. I'm a creature of habit so having a routine is vital for me. An hour or two right after work is my create time everyday. I do my best to eliminate distraction by writing drafts out by hand or typing on my ipad mini + portable keyboard combo. And you need to get to a place where you can accept that unproductive create time is not wasted time. Staring into the middle distance is vital to the creative process. Reduce friction so you can't make excuses to not create! That means keeping that camera on you AT ALL TIMES. Keep pen and paper on you AT ALL TIMES. Whatever you need for your project it needs to be with you or easily accessible otherwise you won't make space for it. And feed your brain. Read, watch, listen, play, and experience as much as you can.
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@lucius
Apr 11, 2024
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WRITING EVEN WHEN YOU DON’T WANT TO
Before you guys ask, yes I’ve been doing the morning pages from “The Artist’s Way” LOL Real talk though, the structure of the book has been super helpful in structuring my own creative process, and one of the best possible things it’s done for me so far is to learn how to write and create, even when you’re “not in the mood” or you’re mentally blocked. On the days I can’t think of shit, I just start rambling about gossip and chairs and people watching (or whatever misc thing is on your mind) and all of a sudden a new project idea hit me out of some random association in my brain from years ago that I never touched til now Anyway yeah, GO WRITE AND CREATE EVEN IF YOU DONT FEEL LIKE IT bc you’ll be surprised at what finds you!!!
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