2021/5/9 #poetry Here's a nice way to start the day Create for a while, with words I play This isn't fun without a meaning So rhyme or not I'll keep a log of ideas that spring to mind The secret to creativity is don't try to be clever. You, simply performing the procedure, will create unique enough results it may only be subtly different than what another made but that will be appreciated. If drawing, a room full of people will come up with quite an array of results if told to draw an apple without a reference. 2D, 3D, colored, grayscale, sketched, cartoony, a logo, different mediums/materials would be chosen if given the option, and different levels of artistic proficiency would reveal themselves. If writing, people being told to describe anything, similarly would come up with a variety of different results. The thing could be general, such as 'a house' or specific, such as 'the nozzle on this fire hose', and there would always be variety in results. Creativity doesn't need to be of a new kind to be meaningful. Just go, make what you are noticing or observing at present, whether internal thoughts or external things, describe them or explain their significance. After such explication or exposition you may feel that going back over it to fit it into a framework or story would suit your current interests or needs, it'll be much easier when you have the material to mould than it would if you were trying to come up with situations and ideas that fit the story in the moment. If you are already given the framework that you'll need to have the result in you can work through that very perfunctorily. No need to 'make it interesting' or 'be creative' your individual way of processing language is enough to make it yours as you complete the task, and that is enough for it to be considered creative.