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Maybe if you start with something smaller, like try writing a fictional paragraph every day? Just visualize a random hypothetical in your head and type it out. Just a sentence if that's all you can come up with at the time. Gradually work up to longer blurbs with more complicated concepts and maybe you can progressive overload your imagination?

Most of the education system is all about grounding out alternative ways of thinking and going into the abstract. Try thinking about events in your own life and think about alternative ways of acting and write it down. Slowly introduce fantastical elements to it, change some names, locations and maybe put it in a far away land. Boom you have a story short or long. It doesn't have to be good at the start, but if you practice good grammar and dialogue, you should pick things up eventually.

I'm not really good at visual arts or instruments though, so I cannot give advice there.

My trick back when I wrote songs of my own was spontaneity. Expose yourself to enough media and eventually, much like how an AI works, you'll start getting ideas of your own based on the material you've consumed. It happens at pure random, at any time, anywhere. Usually when it does you have about half an hour to get it done. The spontaneous material is usually FAR better than anything you could force yourself to write. I've put together some things I'm really proud of this way. The downside is that the spark goes eventually and there's no telling when it'll come back. I haven't written in a year, but when I was fifteen I cracked out two dozen songs in a few months.

In no small part, it depends on your reason for asking the question. What do you *want* to create, and why?

Creative mediums differ wildly from one another, so you have to specialize if you want to master one. If you don't have a preference, pick whatever aligns most closely with your natural talents.

For instance, I'm extremely gifted at writing stories, and devoted hundreds of thousands of words to the craft, but can't compose original music worth dick, despite playing an instrument myself. Drawn artwork is somewhere in the middle. It's not really different from any other skilled field in this respect.

But it's also worth noting that creativity tends to be strongly tied to psychological profile. The whole left brained vs right brained thing. I'm strongly in the latter camp, and have never had to question how to develop creativity, as it's just always been there. But I had to study for hours and hours just to manage a C- on a basic algebra test.

Which is to say, there's no pressure to become "creative" as some sort of mandatory value marker. If it really doesn't come naturally to you, you're probably highly adept at something else (or have the natural potential to be.)

You are not blessed by the "muses". Ancient Greeks understood that creative acts were connected to divine powers, and that not everyone could access those powers all the time.

Don't worry about it. You might have a different mission in life than to create works of art. Not everyone is meant to be the same.

Find your role in life and do that. Let others do theirs. Thank God that anyone has any ability to create anything at all, because it all comes from God.

First you need a base.

What are you interested in? Learn everything you can about that. Then you will start to come to conclusions others haven't thought of. Then your creativity is productive and you create new things. If you like your instrument learn all the songs you like and try to combine or add to them. Go look for new songs that are similar to what you like. It's not complicated.

Let silence and boredom into your mind. It's very important that you make time for this, if you want to create.

Try to appreciate art without judging it, just feel it with your instincts, and then observe what makes it special and meaningful to you. Art is an expression of the subconscious that can be refined by the logical brain. So when you're creating, as paradoxical as it sounds, make space for emptiness in your brain, and let it come out of you like breathing. And then use your logical brain to edit and improve it. : )

Practice, practice, practice.

First read or listen to lots of things to get ideas

Then practice doing some of the things yourself (example: learning scales or songs ob piano)

Maybe do composition exercises like writing prompts or freewriting

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