Ten things I do to get ideas, inspire creativity and get through writer’s block

A lot of the times, I get stuck, creatively. I reach for ideas that do not magically appear. I stare at blank slides or word documents, struggling for ideas. After a while of staring blankly, I realized that this was not productive so I started to study how others around me ‘inspire’ creativity. I tried it out myself and have come up with a method that has always helped me in some way that I thought I’d share with you.

The next time you are stuck, try these things:

Steal other ideas

Whenever I need inspiration for slides, graphics or structure, I like to go into a search engine and search for “subject that I’m interested in” and “infographics”. I look at what other graphic artists have done and then I see what hits me and how to depict information in a different way and then I steal it for my own purposes. I don’t blatantly just take the idea as is though, I usually put my own spin on it so that it has a unique signature to it.

Look to the past

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the past but when I am hoping to get some inspiration, I like to look through some of the things that I have done and see if anything that I have done previously can be re-purposed into something that I can use today. Having a…