Creative Process

Creative process.

In short, this is the steps one takes to produce a piece of work that is unique in itself and truly resonates with the intended audience for which the work is meant. However, creative is not easy and there certainly is no one way to go about doing so. Everyone has their own steps they take to reach a final creative product and this is called their creative process.

My creative process is not exactly the same every time, but there are a couple common trends that usually help me develop my thoughts and produce a more succinct creative plan. The first of which is collaboration. I'm a talker, and when given a creative task, I need the chance to talk out loud and bounce my ideas off of my fellow peers and friends. At the university level, this is perfect. Small group discussions, like group projects, are where I'm most successful. I like having an end goal to work towards and a small team to work with that shares the same drive towards reaching that end goal. For me, having people that want to succeed just as much as I do is so necessary. I need team mates to tell me when an idea isn't going so well, as well as support me when I don't have the confidence in my own ideas. The idea of working on a team is definitely reassuring for me and contributes greatly to my creative thinking.

Another, and perhaps less conventional part of my creative process is finding a distraction. There comes a point in my creative planning where I hit a road block and no matter how hard I try, I just can't find a way to move past that block. One way I've found to get around that hault is to find something that makes me laugh, and gets my mind completely off of the creative process. YouTube videos are one way I go about doing this. I love watching a quick video that has nothing to do with what I'm focusing on and just forget for a second. It seems counterintuitive but it really does prove successful when looking for creativity.

A cursor, blinking on a blank page, is painful for me. This symbolizes the start of a long road towards reaching the end goal that seems so far away. Although I know the creative will come to me eventually, it's hard to figure out which road to take in order to come up with the perfect creative. Being creative certainly isn't easy for me, but with the right tools and concentration, good creative work is achievable.