Common Creative Blocks & How To Overcome Them- "I'm Scared To Create Something Different"

Sometimes as a creative individual, however much you long to unleash your creativity, it feels near to impossible.

The more you try, the more you feel as if some impenetrable barrier is in front of you and there’s no way through, no hope and no solution.

There are many different forms of creative block we can experience, and for each there’s a number of ways we can overcome them.

The first step is to recognise them so we can see what we’re dealing with, then we’re in a better position to overcome them.

Here’s one of the most common types of creative block and some tips to overcome it:

Creative Block: “I'm Scared To Create Something Different”.

How you know when you’re experiencing it: You’re tired of creating the same work and same type of projects over and over and feel desperate to create something new. But each time you come to try you get scared of being out of your creative comfort zone, scared of failing, and revert back to the tried, tested and safe way you created before.

Tips to overcome this type of creative block:

The most important factor is to keep creating, keep experimenting. It’s better to be creating similar projects to those you’ve created before and make small adjustments each time, experiment with altering little details, than to stop creating altogether.

In the long term, doing this will help you evolve, and you’ll learn which of these small experiments produce interesting, stimulating results, and which produce very little new inspiration or ideas. Then you can build on those positive discoveries.

Here are some of the elements you can change, one at a time, then see how it affects your creativity:

Where you create: Try a different position in the room you create or a different room. Take your work outside into nature and see how that stimulates your creativity. If your creativity relies on equipment that can’t be taken outside, then just go with a notebook, camera or voice recorder and capture some ideas in a different way.

The materials you use: If you’re a writer, use different paper, different pens, a new font and colour on your word processor. If you paint, try new colours you’ve not used much before, or a different brush or a different size canvas.

The time frame in which you create: If your creativity normally pours out thick and fast and you throw ideas down on the page rapidly, try creating more slowly. Or even more fast! If you take your time and create very purposefully and precisely, try creating more quickly once in a while, just to see how creative you can still be in half or quarter of the time.

Feeling “I'm Scared To Create Something Different” is just one of the most common creative blocks we experience.

Experiment yourself with the above ideas and see how you can begin to overcome this type of creative block and unleash your creativity.

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