Creative dilemma

Rachael

Rachael

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I hate to use the word because it may be offensive to some people since I'm not bipolar, but it's the only way I can think to describe my content. Sometimes I want to make really happy fun light stuff, and sometimes I want to question the world and why we're here etc. Yesterday I was in a good mood, so I started writing a funny skit. I had a bit of a block so I decided I would come back to it the next day. But now today, I don't want to write anything happy at all, and I think what I made yesterday was stupid. But what if this is just temporary? What if tomorrow I'm going to like what I made yesterday? Or what if my happy feeling of yesterday was temporary? What if a week from now I'll be proud of deleting that and making something else? I never know what to do.
 
I feel sometimes it's best to just take a day off completely and get away from Youtube. Overall it just makes me feel a bit more positive and a lot more productive the next day. I hope you get over your creative block soon!
 
Me too. Alongside all the comedic and light content I actually make I keep having my imagination constantly conjure up dark cartoons featuring Punisher/Arrow S1 style violence and brutality. I haven't found the solution yet myself, I'm not even sure there's supposed to be one-but finally "giving in" to what was calling to me instead of repressing it began to give me some kind of relief. And not just in terms of my own work but what I consume (in fiction of course, I don't go looking up pictures of real crime scenes-lol). I don't know if it's my dark side from college coming back in relation to my spike in depression recently or what but if I actually start to work on a project featuring a Dangan Ronpa inspired execution, or at least sketch the Jack Bauer style interrogation I'm seeing-I'll find myself relieved enough (or perhaps even uncomfortable enough with myself lawl) to go back to Three Stooges style slapstick.

I also have this battle in terms of TV-14 work vs. TV-Y7 work. Constantly.

So yeah, just some knowledge that you're not alone. I've found safely venting it in my work for even a little bit relieves my mind enough to work on the lighter stuff. Then I'll get that tired of that anyways and go back to the dark stuff, never bloody ends.

Heh. Bloody.
 
Dude I've felt this way all throughout college I was so stressed out that I didn't enjoy my work at that time and sometimes I'll be as happy as a fiddle so I know what it's like. I think I was just unhappy with myself due to stress and just not being happy with things around me. I just learnt to enjoy myself by staying within the company of friends instead of isolating myself so much and just talking about it a lot more to people I know. Helped me out hugely since you wouldn't realize the amount of people that can emphasize with you and make you feel like your not the only one who has problems. It all part of life I say and looking back at those memories I think they are good experiences and the memories just show how much you can change for the better. People are always here for support though so cheer up bud :)
 
This is 100% what the writers I know go through. We love our ideas, then hate them. We want to start 5,000 different things at once, and then don't want to write at all. There seems to be a process, and I think the best way to approach it is to keep going on the thing you started, even if you hate it, to get through to the end. Bopping from one project to another just waters down everything in the end, and writing, the work of writing, can't be just when you're inspired, but also when you find it a total slog.
 
As said before, go on with an idea, just finish it, then afterwards take a good look at it and be proud of what you have put into such an idea. Mostly I got thousands of ideas for my gaming channel but always end up with noone of them because I am just mainly because of poor reasoning with them :)
 
I think I can agree with everyone here because this happens to me a lot as well. I will start writing one idea down that is a lighthearted vlog and suddenly will want to do something sarcastically funny. That happened to me like two days ago, where I ended up writing down 3 different scripts but did none of them, because it stressed me out. I would suggest you write everything down and do the one you feel like at that moment.
Somewhat it also depends on what type of videos or stuff I'm watching at that moment.
 
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