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Wanting to get back into creating art but feel more or less blocked inspirationally which is frustrating. Does anyone have any ideas or ways of going about getting inspired again? Any tips or advice would be much appreciated. I almost feel a block emotionally and I don't know exactly know how to go about releasing or figuring out exactly what it is. <3
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ninalanyon · 61-69, T
Take a break, do something else.

I'm not an artist but a software developer and electronics engineer and I often had similar problems in that I couldn't make decisions about which approach to use to solve a problem and couldn't motivate myself to think up better ways of solving problems. I would be in a state where I'd be just staring at a sheet of paper or a screen getting nothing done.

Sometimes it was enough to to just get away from my desk and go for a walk in the sunshine and think about something else, or indeed nothing at all. Coming back to my desk after half an hour in the fresh air I would sometimes have the solution spring almost fully formed from my fingers to the paper or keyboard even though I hadn't been consciously thinking about the problem.

It has sometimes been necessary to just drop the problem entirely for days, on occasion for weeks.

Something that might also help is this: I found it easier to push myself into creating novel solutions when I was working than I do now that I am retired. Deadlines and the feeling that others are depending on me finding inspiration helped prevent me demanding perfection rather than performance. Now that I have only myself to satisfy it is easy to feel that none of it is worth working on and I get much less done.

So perhaps you should try creating a deadline or some other need to get something done. You could offer to create something for someone else.

Does any of that sound useful?