Wish I was more creative

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I have some ideas for characters and stories I'd like to write, but I cannot get the stories to flow. I'm just stuck on the concept, and don't know what to do from here.

My head is usually full of that.

The creativity isn't the problem.
Tho, in my own case, it's the language processing. Actually parts of wording them.


So I say, the issue is the execution with yours, too; the skill of putting something from your head into paper.


In my own case, didn't matter how much I read and write and read what I write.

I hate words.

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There are a few for whom artistic expression flows naturally.Most of us have to sort of hack away at something and them go over it to smooth it out.

You might try reading descriptions of the "three act play" to get an idea of a story format.

Some just start writing and see where they are inspired to take the characters. Others have an idea of what the story will be and then "flesh it out" in the different parts.

The key is to keep writing. Even it it is painfully bad, it can be made better. A word processor and a recursive approach lets to add, subtract, and move things around. You may wish to dabble with elements of humor, emotional connection, circumstances that will bring out courage, endurance, friendship, or other characteristics.

You want to create characters that your reader will want to invest himself in knowing and feel rewarded for having done so.

Yes, practice doing something over and over again and it becomes easier over time.
Maybe write short stores or caption pictures?

Yes I think doing it more helps it to get easier. And reading what other good writers have written might be a good source of inspiration. Unlike a lot of so-called inspirational people, with the arts you get to see exactly what they've done in the finished work. You're unlikely to be able to just look once and then go off and create stuff that's just as good, but I think at least a little bit of the magic rubs off here and there.

Creativity doesn't come to order though, so there's a limit to what you can do to improve it. Not that it's futile to try intervening. It can be effective, just don't expect too much of it.

I got one of the best ideas for a song I've ever had just after my son had gone missing and had been found alive and well. I think it was because the experience had shaken me up. But of course nobody can or should try to reproduce such a shock to the system just so they can do a good piece of art. And actually I've still not finished the song. I got the tune very nicely but I don't like the words much in the form I wrote them, and it'll need quite a bit of work before it's ready. I wrote it in 1993 so that goes to show how things can fall by the wayside if you let them. But I still remember the song in detail so it's not too late.

I'd like to make a comic book