To attempt to do what is unknown or not yet proven to be possible, is the unthinkable.

How do you do it? 

Where do you even start? 

What are you even talking about? 

The insecurity that comes with not knowing what to do next can be a crippling blow dealt to any idea. It can stop you from even getting off the starting line. There can be a tendency to compare your newly created ideas and works to proven mediums of content. It is a challenging space to navigate. It takes time to build out what is in your head and translate it into something real and tangible. It takes patience and adaptability.

Ideas are fluid, creativity is fluid. When I think of creative ideas, it reminds me of water. Water takes the shape of any medium that it exists in. It can even take on an entirely different physical state depending on what it is needed for. With creativity, water needs to become ice. Creative ideas should exist in environments where they are allowed to solidify and take on a unique shape. Then, the creator must nurture an environment. This environment should enable both themselves and others to keep ideas cool enough to become solidified. If a creator can’t make that space for ideas to form, shaping them into anything becomes more difficult. They run the risk of melting away and even escaping the creator’s mind entirely.

To be cool can extend further than just a surface level compliment. Being too quick to critique original thoughts and ideas can me that they burn up entirely. They can lose focus, ideas run the risk of not taking shape. To be cool can translate to a slowed state of mind or an overall sense of calm. When someone is calm, it can create a opportunities for new ideas to form in their minds.

How does someone create something original? They start with perspective. Every single person is equipped with an original perspective if they so choose to embrace it. Being confident enough to solidify these ideas is the catch. Even as I write this, I must let the creative process flow. It must be fluid like water and then solidify into a new form. Being patient with an idea is crucial to its development. Water needs time to freeze and solidify into the shape I need it in. Anxiety can halt this process. Fear can change my thoughts to be more pessimistic. Comparisons can alter my expectations to something unreasonable for an original draft. All of that is me burning myself out of a good idea before it can develop. Instead of freezing my creative ideas, it melts them down and dilutes anything original into a pool of nonstarter ideas. Drafts can change and you can edit as necessary, but always respect the water. If I have it, and I have a perspective to tell, the environment around that idea needs to foster growth. In this case in particular, it has to be cold enough.