Being creative for its own sake is like pushing a string. It's one of the parts of life you have to aim at sideways if you expect to hit anything. Dive deep into something you give a shit about and the inspiration will strike. Eventually you'll figure out how to do that on demand but it takes fucking ages to learn and it's never as good as the real thing.

One easy cheat for being creative is just being random and anachronistic. Expropriate some private property today my comrade!
Imagine Cadillacs and Dinosaurs or Yugioh but even more extreme and varied. Bear-dogs fighting against golems in the Wild West. Medieval fantasy magicians and ancient giant amphibians squaring off in a stereotypical 80s mall to the sound of vaporwave. Caribbean pirates vs Harambe in the space station in Tom & Jerry. Anomalocaris riders alongside high school catgirls (and catboys) in pre-colonized Southern Vietnam. Stuff like that.
I don't plan to plagiarize. I'll just straight up steal. Disney, Capcom, Konami, etc. Ariel and Mulan will fight Tyrant zombies. Revolver Ocelot will team up with Max Payne. Basically I want to shit and piss on the concept of intellectual property. Someone has to. Since I'm in Vietnam, maybe those corporations won't be able to get my ass.
Well, the heart is willing but the means of production aren't there yet 👋😂

Just building a habit helps, I think. I've been keeping a journal of some sort for 20 years give or take, sometimes semi-public, sometimes private. It's all about practice, and starting with yourself as the audience w/out any expectations or pressure is one of the best ways to do it. In fact, one of the most important observations I saw someone else make in the past is about how for some reason creative types are supposed to, idk, just tune into their muse and shit out stuff -- even though in reality the process of creation requires just as much practice, study, and training as say, sports. The person I heard this from phrased it a lot better though, haha.

I'm currently being creative, there are actual publicly viewable spaces that I want to put leftist art. I can't draw and I suck but I'm working on it hours a day, watching myself get better.

I'm a really good writer and I always thought that's what I should be but I can never think of what to write. Then I found an excellent physical space that needs art so I guess I'm drawing now.

When I started writing I was absolutely dogshit at it. Reading back through my old stuff makes me want to cry.

That's the feeling I'm chasing. Every time I hate something I've made, I know it's because I can do better now.

Also, for writing specifically, just write literally anything. Narrate the walk you just took. Add ninjas and see what happens next, and what happens after that. Write fanfiction. Write nonfiction. Shitty poetry, parodies of better writers, whatever. The more words you get down and then edit and analyse and edit again, the more you learn. Writing well is a skill you mostly get by writing badly, and then picking your own work apart. The main thing is to keep going, and try to always be getting better, even if it's just a little bit.

Depends what it is

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