Do you think creativity comes from discipline, chaos, or something cosmic?

@Keyia120 (1206)
United States
December 5, 2025 10:41am CST
I have a question for my fellow mylotters. Do you think creativity comes from discipline, chaos, or something cosmic? In my world I am a horror/true crime writer, and my creativity has come from chaos because I circled my writing around my life's trauma. Writing is a way that I heal besides using music. I have learned to heal through telling stories instead. What about you? What do you think? If you are not on the creative side, then let me know anyway...
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Amber
@AmbiePam (107738)
• United States
5 Dec
I’m not really sure, but I think it’s a God given ability that we then shape with our environment and experiences. I was always really creative, but I always tried to shut it off because it felt like I was opening a door I’d never be able to shut.
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L Mystic
@Keyia120 (1206)
• United States
6 Dec
Yeah, it can be like that. I always thought I wanted to shut the door myself, but soon understood that it was a part of me and now I use it to heal and tell stories.
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Amber
@AmbiePam (107738)
• United States
6 Dec
@Keyia120 That’s really great; it really is.
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L Mystic
@Keyia120 (1206)
• United States
13h
@AmbiePam Thank you! I share my stories and poems as well. I will share one here when I get a chance. I was scared at first, but then everything started to flow easily, so I just kept on writing.
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (111593)
• United States
6 Dec
I like to think that creativity comes from the same place dreams do. From somewhere deep in the subconscious. When it comes to music or writing, sometimes you see the finished work and have no idea where it actually came from. It just happened. It often reminds me of something said a lot, that sometimes things just write themselves.
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L Mystic
@Keyia120 (1206)
• United States
6 Dec
That is very true things do write themselves.
RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (91580)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
5 Dec
I developed a very good imagination growing up as an only child and that has greatly influenced both my writing and my poetry.
RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (91580)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12h
L Mystic
@Keyia120 (1206)
• United States
13h
Yes!!! Same here, and then I had so much going on and things happening to me that I did not like or should not have happened, so I made it my mission to start using those things and turning them into stories, poems, and even a few ballads.
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PLETHOS
@Plethos (13626)
• United States
5 Dec
Imagination mostly. Personal experience and influence. Also exaggerating the truth.
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L Mystic
@Keyia120 (1206)
• United States
5 Dec
True, thanks for your reply.
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