
How to be more creative?
**"Do you have any advice for people who want to be more creative? **
"Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restrain that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance."
-Picasso
...Try a constraint. One color. One object. One hour. Anything that precludes the path of convenience: I read Lynda Barry and drew with both hands at once. When you block the familiar path, you won't give up. YOU'LL GET RESOURCEFUL
From Typewriter interview with David Epstein
I know it sort of ties it into his newest book “Inside the Box”, but the more I think about this, the more it resonate with me. I think I was the most creative when I had to come up with some photo idea every day for my Project 365. I tried to replicate it later on, but without that much success. After achieving the goal the motivation to achieve it again sort of run out. But it kept me thinking… that maybe what I need is another self impose (or not) constraint?
I did it once or even twice with photos, so why not try to write everyday? It's a lot harder to come up with a coherent sentence then point a camera at anything and press the shutter button. I refreshed my Bluesky account on June 1st and I will be trying to post there everyday. Let's see how long this will last.