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The thought that "the perfect is not good enough and let's not embarrass ourselves by showing off crap" is very much present and I even suspect that has something to do with my "creative block"
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Well, inspiration and art is a very confusing thing. I read something interesting not so long ago on PWOT. Yeah, a VERY unlikely place to find the meaning of life, but there it was, I promise. I read that art and human suffering is connected. Not in a physical way, but in a "frame of mind" way. I read that people with with strong emotions and unwillfully introverted personalities are the best artists. Bad things happen to them and they can't went these feelings any other way than channeling into some form of art. And it makes some aweseome pieces of art, be it music, drawing, writing...etc. If the artist is lucky, the angst goes away, if the audience is luck, it doesn't. With the angst gone, the artist no longer has anything to be emotional about, has nothing to channel into art, therefore it becomes bland and mediocre. You get what I mean?
You have some tremendous ammount of angst inside you now. The bestest way would be, just like above, to channel it into art, any form you like. You virtually cannot mess up, everything you'll do will be solid gold. I'm not kidding. I did this myself. I had angst, a lot. Personal problems, girls, family...you name it, I had problem with it sometime in the past (God knows I still have). I started to make music, write novells, do pictures in photoshop... just doodled away, nothing organised or even thought-out. But guess what, a lot of my songs, pictures, and my novel was awesome according to some friends and you people also. I presented a portion of my songs here in the art thread.
So if you are looking for a way to get better, express yourself and feel good about it too, just use art. It helped me. And don't worry about inspiration, it will come once you start doing it, I promise. Just start to doodle, play a note, write some words, and it will flow like you've always done this. :amused: