Where Does Creativity Come From?

As a writer, I hit writer's block quite often. I want to have consistency in my blog, but ideas just don't appear. I've had this issue for a very long time, and I used to believe that I lacked creativity just because I couldn't create a piece of content out of the blue, but today I learned that I was wrong the whole time!

Hi, I'm Saina, and you're reading Sainaslife.

A Massive Realization About Creativity

Many times when I create content, I get inspired by the works of others. I watch a video about ADHD, and it sparks something in my head, an idea that my brain eagerly wants me to write about. But I always had this feeling that when I use others' content as inspiration, I am somehow not original. I believed that those people are simply geniuses and create their ideas out of nowhere, but today, while watching a content marketing video, I learned that no idea is actually original. There is no such thing as "out of nowhere"; it is more like getting inspired by what's around you. Some get inspired to draw, some to sculpt, and some to write.

Inspired by the World

To be honest, I feel a sort of relief. I really thought that I lacked something in my brain, that I can't pop ideas from a void, but now I think with this reality I was introduced to, I can create content with much more open hands. It doesn't necessarily need to be from a person; you can get inspired by nature, animals, even objects, if you expose yourself to the world. I have noticed that when I put myself out there, I come up with much better ideas, and it even affects my writing quality. Some of my best posts are derived from a collection of interactions with all the elements I mentioned above. When I go out, interact with fun people, connect with nature, or play with animals, I feel a burst of ideas.

The Wrong Approach

Ironically, pressuring myself into writing something does the exact opposite! I feel like ideas are at the back of my head, and the more I try to reach them, the farther they get. In one of my previous posts, "ADHD and Medication" I talked about the relationship between my ADHD and the consistency in my content creation process. I mentioned that sometimes I get a huge motivation to write lots of blog posts for a week or so, then I disappear into thin air for 3 months. I want to have consistency, so sometimes I try to force myself to just write something. If I try to push myself to write something at a time when I don't feel like writing, the content is gonna be 100% flop. Even I hate it when I reread it myself because it feels so forced and unoriginal. I came up with some pretty good ideas in that post that might also help you too; I recommend checking it out.

A Different Perspective

I now understand that creativity was never about sitting behind your computer and squeezing your brain cells for content. It was and always will be about experiencing life and getting inspired by it. Honestly, my life is not super interesting right now, but I believe it will get a lot more interesting because some surprises are coming soon, and I will write about them whenever the time is right. The busier I'm gonna be, the more words are going to flourish, so keep an eye out for new blog posts to come.

As always, see you in the next post,

With lots of hearts,

Saina.