Sometimes it is good to take a break from the workplace. You wonder that because you have been working hard, you cannot "find the time" to be creative.
Maybe you can't, but that's because you're not MAKING IT HAPPEN. You need to make it happen in order to be creative. Even five minutes will suffice. After all, big oak trees were once little acorns.
Let's take the example of a coffee shop. Buy yourself a coffee and a chocolate muffin. Sit back and relax: you deserve it. You have worked hard. You have earned it. Maybe workplace has made you worry about your artwork or your writing. In the coffee shop, you will find little gems to inspire you.
For instance, you could:
1. Outline what you like about your coffee shop. Why do you like to come here?
2. Outline what you hate about your coffee shop. What sort of things make your blood boil?
3. Study people in the coffee shop: maybe there is a woman talking to herself in-between sips of coffee. Why does she talk to herself and what do you think she is saying?
4. Watch dramas unfold: maybe a love relationship is breaking up? Maybe a mother is reprimanding her adult daughter for borrowing money from a loan shark.
5. Plonk a toy dinosaur next to your coffee and take a picture.
Now you've got five things you can do: the first four are little gems you can take away to use as story prompts later on. Or maybe you can just keep them in your notebook for a later date.
There are other opportunities/happenings in the coffee shop. Maybe confidence tricksters visit and try to trick baristas out of money. The possibilities are endless.
In that half hour (at least, I am assuming it is half-an-hour), you have MADE TIME TO BE CREATIVE without worrying about finding time to be creative.
It's called being productive. It's fun when you enjoy yourself and enjoy the work in the coffee shop.
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