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Day 3

In your own space, talk about your creative process - from what inspires you to what motivates you to how you manage to break through blocks. Does your process change depending on the type of creating you're doing? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


First, motivations.

For everything:
- Prompts. I don't always find the prompt I really love, but they almost always help.
- Stress seems to be a huge motivator. Or at least the need for distraction, considering that I did most of what I did last year when I was nervous about math. (And yes, I did still study the math and do the other stuff I needed to do. That's why I usually don't work on long projects these days.)

For writing:
- Constrained writing challenges that catch my eye - word count, sentence count, unusual formats, that sort of thing.

For art:
- Color palettes, apparently.

So it seems as though the thing that motivates me most are limitations. Who knew?

Dealing with Blocks:

Really, the only way I can get through a block is by doing something, even if it's not the project I really want to be working on. This is probably why prompts help me so much, actually.

I almost exclusively do silly fanart and flashfics these days. There are still longer projects in my head, but I don't know when I'll have time to do them. (Besides, with the sheer number of longer projects on my computer that I never finished, I probably shouldn't add to the pile.)

That's honestly about all I can think of. (Process? What process? I just do things.)
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