I will recommend trying to figure out your goals and dreams, I never did that for years and it really fucked up me later with regret.
if you keep feeling like doing multiple things then try finding a way to mix them together in a fun way.
For example If I was a story writer and I felt like I had to learn a little scripting to make the story I would make the story amazing with a mid/decent coded game and I would ignore things like building and such.
If your goal is to be a story writer you really shouldn’t need to worry as much on the art style or building or if the code is perfectly professional. But you might constantly learn and improve your story writing skills and see if you can make improvements.
I used to draw and was really really good then stopped for ages and now I’m really really bad and idk where to start with improving again because I don’t know what to draw
I also write and I’ve never finished a single book because I would rush and burn myself out
Try not to force yourself to do it for the sake of doing something, art and writing need time and thought.
From my experience so far with writing the lore of my game It really kept proving impossible for me sit down one day and complete the lore on said day cuz it felt impossible. Currently I slowly build upon them slowly without worrying about them too much. Many writers make mistakes, Even the most popular ones. doubting it? just watch a plot hole video about any popular series.
Essentially the activities that purely run on constant creativity like writing really require more time for you to think about them, Don’t stress about it if you can’t do it in one setting.
Drawing usually has the same problem as writing, can’t really force it constantly. I don’t particularly have any advise on drawing Cuz It’s one of the things I gave up doing cuz I don’t think I actually liked it much and I didn’t explore it as much as other things.
However, I do think deciding on what kind of stuff you wanna draw could help you, like do you wanna draw characters, or landscapes and such. After that you can try them and maybe decide sticking to a particular genre in them? (not sure I’m explaining this one correct)
hmm for the most part your gonna feel “Fraud Syndrome” (idk if that’s the correct name) but if you try again then ignore it. It’s a biting feeling but usually you only get that cuz you doubting yourself unnecessarily, Especially with coding. No one remembers every single function and stuff perfectly and often people just re-check older code to make new code cuz it’s too difficult to remember
If your feeling like a fraud then your probably making progress, it’s just a weird effect that happens for some reason but pushing past it should help.
Don’t worry about it if you didn’t like the activity, However I would recommend anyone to pursue any sort of creative work even for fun as it really helps with distracting you off your actual work.
Everyone sucks ass at the starting, Don’t give up on it.
Here’s my first music I made on boscaceoil
Here’s one of my music 4 months later on FL Studio
for the most part you get 2 stages where the first one involves being overwhelmed by the amount of information the internet gives you at once.
The 2nd step is that you will probably make something good and you will get a rush of “Damn I actually made something” which will be followed by negativity cuz no one will appreciate it.
and those steps might cycle or variate but if you can tank that mentally then you can constantly make meaningful progress until people will acknowledge you
IMO and experience a lot of problems a creative person faces is the mental damage they get and not actually the part where they start learning everything.
Also just to add to this, the reason why my music starts off kinda decent is because I’ve gotten till grade 2 in piano. So it’s not like I quickly jumped into music knowing everything.
I’m in a limbo state when it comes to creative endeavours. One day I’ll do it for atleast a month, and then drop it and then come back again.
Not going to lie I really need to use that drawing pad I bought more. Only problem is that I am pretty much thin on time to practice art. That and also the subconscious thing that can be described with this GIF:
Writing is pretty easy to get back at in my experience. Could be done on my phone at anytime. How I get slowed down from writing is how I build the story and how I write it. I am more of worldbuilder than a storyteller. I have already made in mind novel technolgies and basic histories of families. And then I proceed to redo it again.
My friends describe my writing as long-winding and detailed, anathema to their philosophy of less is more. I do agree it is at times, but I like writing it in a way as how I imagine it. A bit egotistical on my part, but their are parts of the story that I need to do that to satisfy the vision.
Basically, no time to practice and subconsciously hating myself when I try to do art. Get too enamored with trying to justify having a tricorn hat on the year 1845 and writing too long and having to redo it again
