I don't have any ideas. Should I force myself to write garbage

garbage then polish said garbage

>>61681405
write garbage
that way your good stuff will be more competently written

Force yourself to write good stuff

That's to say, even if you're writing garbage keep writing until it gets good

Let your creativity flow, even if it's shit. Eventually you'll make something good.

>>61681405
Stop trying. Allow creativity to be an every moment thing, and it will spill out of your ears like bananas from a cart.

>>61681599
Maybe I'm just not cut out for music?
https://soundcloud.com/crazy-8-1/harpsichordinbminor

Last thing I wrote and I rushed the ending and fucked up the mixing.

>>61681405
Have you ever tried sensory deprivation? If I go a week without listening to someone else's music, tuneful things sometimes come to me in dreams, though I'm no musician. As for ideas more at the technical end of the creative spectrum, as with the craft of developing, varying, or enhancing a theme, let theft come to the rescue. During the apprentice phase of anything, replication, reverse-engineering others' work, and systematic study of what's been done along those lines, is not just good practice, but curiously suggestive. Process can yield fruitful accidents, as well as "what if I changed this..." Rigor too can be a road to spontaneity.

>>61683328
Interesting idea I couldn't possibly have the discipline for
I start having violent ruminations without a daily tunes session

>>61683328
Can confirm as someone who plays music, if I spend a week camping without music I get a ton of ideas while I'm out there. Sensory deprivation helps

>>61683732
The principle of it is even more general than in the example I gave: When experiential fulfillment is lacking, the imagination comes forward to bridge the gap, and life goes on a little more in the artist's way.