I agree with Saki - a good diet of culture (especially if it's outside of your immediate preferences/ comfort zone). . . that is often my quick fix.

I feel lucky, with songwriting, all I have to do is start playing, and there's some little nugget I can work off of. The "nuggets" tend to hit in the shower or while I'm already playing.

One exercise I did in college was taking a visual "nugget" and trying to spin it off in an artistically reasonable way. For a bunch of musicians, it works great. . . perhaps you could do the opposite; take an aural "nugget" and attempt to spin it off. Or, take a photo, and then vector the next photo in the essay a different way.

If photography is your hobby, try film/video. Then, go back and look at the composition of your shorts, your photos, and then your album art.

Long-story-short (too late!): cross-train.

 

I always looked for inspiration in visual media when I got stuck. Find some cool visual, and try and replicate it with one of my own stock images or something. You can come up with some pretty interesting stuff when you try for something you haven't done before and aren't sure how to get there.

 

Try watching p0rn for a while. That should get the juices flowing.








<--- not creative

 

That's because you work on PC's Jeff...

 

It's because I don't watch p0rn enough.

 

Hey - leave his underwear out of this!

 

Kim!!

 

Hey you!

 

You better be at the next Dragon event or I'm coming down to Florida and dragging you up.

 

Oh, I'll be there! Still might fly in for that since there's just no way to do the drive up (from here) and beat the Atlanta traffic w/o leaving at some ungodly hour. I'm going to see if Kendra wants to fly in again too.