What Are Your Creative Habits? 

His voice is so relaxing

i can't do routines because whenever i get into one it starts feeling like a chore and becomes unenjoyable

I have SO many stupidly ridiculous stories, inventions, movie ideas, etc. that I started and never finished. One night I had an idea for a flying machine thingy that you could sit in- and I spent all night calculating weight, how many grams one balloon could lift, etc. It's crazy.

I'm so glad I watched this video. I used to write my thoughts every day. I remember being less stressed. Maybe writhing is a way of venting. If you have anger issues take them out on a piece of paper, it certainly worked for me. Going to the coffee shop 2-3 times a week by myself, is very relaxing as well.

A lot of times when I can't sleep I walk around some places in the house for no reason... It usually lasts hours...

I start so many projects, but rarely finish a single one. It's depressing to say the least.

I like it when he said... "Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights but you can make the whole trip that way."

I have a habit of watching Buzzfeed videos.

I'm a programmer. My routine is to sleep until 11, eat breakfast and arrive at work at 12, joke around with my coworkers about my weird work hours, then work to 10 and having fun. It gets my creativity going. Also, if the narrator is white, this is the true white Morgan Freeman.

i want a mix of just these types of videos..

Sometimes my inspiration is anime. Other times I lie down for hours, in a dream-like state. I end up asking weird questions like ""What if Jeff the Killer is real?"" ""Does anybody have an actual "natural" scent like in the stories??"" ""Oh apparently she smells like strawberries even though she never ate them ahaha that's makes perfect sense-""

This is what gives power to consciousness, never giving up and the little habits that keep us going.

I drink exactly 2 cups of coffee and 20 Tyson chicken nuggets, it has to be Tyson, every Wednesday night after 9pm when editing a video.

My habit is to listen to music in a foreign language that way i can write a story on what i think the song is about.

within 5 minutes of waking up: 1. laptop is turned on 2. Facebook opened 3. check my notifications and messages 4. ignore them long enough for me to: 5. open Netflix 6. watch 1 episode of the series I'm currently binging 7. tie up loose ends from yesterday 8. the day starts!

I have to take a scolding hot shower and play a playlist to my current mood, and I talk to myself about my day, and vent about problems as if I was talking to someone else... it seems crazy, but it relaxes me and clears my mind.

The shower gives me soo many good ideas and I would hurry up Just to write it down. I will repeatedly say over again in my head until I get out but then forget 😕

I really dont know why, but i love it when they break the fourth wall and we see how they filmed it, like at the end of these vids.

Awesome!

I get the best ideas for my art from being tired because I think more spontaneously and I haven't got the energy to judge if my ideas are too weird or impossible to do. Obviously it's not healthy (especially for school days) but doing it on a Saturday night to think of ideas works for me. :)

I misread the title as "Are you a creature or a hobbit?"

I usually take a 2 hour long shower while listening to classical music. It's very relaxing, and it's where I get a lot of ideas for my stories.

I play netball every Saturday at mid-day and every time i'm in the middle of the game I will have the urge to ironically write cheesy motivational statements or phanfiction.

I have a habbit of moving my furniture,,,, i get really exited and inspired when i do so... and it helps me with my producing. I move all my furniture every month or so lol....

I so totally agree with this - that's why blogging is so inspirational. I blog twice a day, once with a book review, and once with a word search puzzle, or with a solution to that puzzle. This habit I can keep going even during my busiest periods of work as a copy-editor and back-of-book indexer. Not only am I comforted by this regularity, but also it helps make me realize where my goals and aspirations lie, which is most definitely not just in the daily grind.

If there is such a thing as reincarnation, I could wish to be granted in that next life at least a mere 1/4 of Zefrank's intelligence, thoughtfulness, and most wonderful voice ever to grace my ears.

my mom bought me my 1st journal and i wrote songs in it, i have another for drawing, another for designs on homes or dresses, and one were i can use it as a diary and song book and an all in one journal... I have too many journals, but when i see another one, i buy it.

this guy's voice makes me feel like i'm watching a 3 hour documentary

my routine freetime involves watching youtube and playing video games.

My inspiration usually comes from me driving in silence talking to myself. Like full conversations for an hour. Sometimes when I get home I still sit in the car finishing the thought before I go in.

"Writing is like driving at night with your headlights on. You can only see as far as your headlights. It's tedious, but you can make the whole journey that way." So true, as a fanfic-writer

Whenever I'm about to do anything creative (mainly drawing), I always grab my cell phone and my headphones and listen to my favorite Korean Pop web radio station. It helps me block out everything except for what I am doing.

Music. Most of what I draw is directly influenced by what I listen to when I'm drawing, and I usually wright the song name and who its by on the back of it when im done. Also longboarding at night by myself while listening to music.

I like this dudes voice.

When I can't think of anything to write, I hang out on my exercise ball and listen to music. Works like a charm. :)

in summer i did an art project with some other kids for a week and i once was bored and started to look trough the stuff that we had to work with and me and a boy found some clothing hanges. i took these hanges and held them next to each other and they looked like butterfly wings and so we searched for something as the body and made a butterfly out of two clothing hanges and a cardboard role

Travel. And I don't mean going very far. Sitting in a bus, listening to music, staring out of the window, I tend to be more inspired for some reason. Also, in the past, I was always the most creatively energized by math class? Which is strange. But I wrote so much in my math classes, it's quite silly.

I usually get inspiration whenever I stand up and walk around my house for no reason after watching something like this one. It's weird, but I find it entertaining.

I have a daily routine where I sit in front of a computer screen and watch a BuzzFeedVideo, it makes my day so much better :))

I am in love with these types of videos 😍 we need more!

I don't really have a routine, as my schedule is not very uniform, but in the last few years, I got used to exercising as often as possible in the afternoon after school, then listening to relaxing music, before I go on working. I'm in school, but I'm currently taking part in two musical theatre productions, having a main role in one. It's more than stressful. So I need this routine to calm down a little^^

My routine when in a process of writing: Right after lunch or dinner, sometimes both, go to a the field (I live in the edge of a city), always the very same path. It takes about 40 minutes to complete a round in that area. Sometimes I just walk as a robot, still thinking about the actual topic, but sometimes I observe a plant or a bird. Then I try to identify when I am already at home. It is so great, helps relaxing. Sometimes I take camera too, and shoot the same landscape in an always diefferent mood. It is fun also then to see those pictures and compare the changing nature of the very same landscape. I found these 40 minutes walk is enough to relax but not too long to put your actual work off...

I'm on a 2014 buzzfeed video Marathon

When I get stuck partway through writing a story, I'll force myself to write something, ANYTHING, to get through that particular passage. I can always go back later & revise. Alternatively, I'll take my camera for a long walk & toggle into photographic mode. Sometimes the best way to solve a creative problem is to leave it alone for a while. The subconscious never stops working on it.

This is one of the most valuble videos I have seen on the internet

I love how this channel uploads so often, and the videos are totally original and never the same, keep it up! :)

I don't have a planned routine but I just watch movies and play games everyday and I get ideas from them all the time!

I carry around a small notebook to write down all of my ideas I get during the day. This sounds weird, but I also watch people and animals and things that move, a certain word someone says, or the way a bird flew away can set off a million ideas for stories...

Going to a park, just sitting down on the grass, & just watch the wind blow the trees. The sound of nature(: Sometimes works for me.

BuzzFeed, it was a ZeFrank narrated video that originally made me interested in your channel. Admittedly I don't watch a whole heck of a lot of your vids solely based on the titles, but it's nice to watch this one and find ZeFrank involved.

My routine is to wake up around 11am (it's quite late I know but I'm not a morning person) get dressed, go out for a walk to my local supermarket and get a bottle of water and some fruit to snack on for the night and then come back home. Then when it's around 8pm I do a 30minute exercise workout on RU-vid, eat my fruit snack and read a book for an hour before I go to sleep.

Normally I'm most creative when tired.

I don't sleep much, and that's when I write. To get inspiration, I do menial tasks such as school work, or studying. My process works fairly well, for me at least.

Every night, I write in my journal and have a glass of milk.

All I have to do to get my imagination going is walk around. Music sometimes helps, but not always. And the kind of inventor I am? I invent stories from my fandoms (Mostly Touhou, but sometimes creepypastas. Sometimes even a collab between the 2...)

I usually have a cup of coffee, go exercise for an hour, take a shower, and start drawing for 3 hours or I go to a coffee house and start drawing people I see for 40 mins. Painting is whole different ball game. Still trying to get a habit for it.

Who narrates BuzzFeed's videos?

usually when i cant think of something to draw/paint ill take a walk and just take pictures. whatever picture i like or a series of pictures i like ill start that then work my way to the end.

I usually stay up super late and take long naps. Driving to far away places helps a lot too or just doodling on a page until it becomes something

I exercise everyday at from 6p.m to 7p.m, that's my usual routine... sometimes I also punch my wall to focus on my thoughts or lay down on the ground and look up for 20 minutes :)

Having writers block. Just what I needed to watch thanks guys!

Man the voice of that guy is like " i hate my life"

he is the same guy who speaks for Dear Kitten

Creativity comes when I am sleepy. Also, I like to relax on a bed. It helps.

Thanks for making and posting this. I've been in a artistic black void since winter. This helped me realize I'll get through it. Thanks.

Its my habit from childhood that when i wake up i just go my balcony and enjoy 😊 seeing the trees and everything

I'm a terrible sleeper, I sleep at about 4 on good days, that's WITH school, but I can absolutely not go to sleep without knowing the exact time. Every night right before I go to bed I must check the exact time, wait for a minute to pass by then go to sleep ( if I can ) if not I have to wait until I'm sleepy.

Sometimes when i need to write the next chapter on my stories i watch new series or movies and listen to music and sometimes dance or put music and walk around my town but i need to have my acoustics or headphones with me at all times, i need to listen to music so i can write otherwise i don't feel insipred or concentraded at all.

I hate routine, I tend to do everything in short burst. like if I want to do a drawing, I don't stop drawing until I've finished, and it takes me about 4 hours. then I would do random stuff for the rest of the day.

My routine involves buzzfeed videos before bed time!

"The life of the mind, there's no road map for that" -Barton Fink

If sitting naked in the cold air is essential for coming up with a great idea, then I give up with my duck dojo invention.

My creative routine consists of sitting in a Starbucks cafe or attempting contemporary dance in my pool.

Every day I set my alarm to 5:45, 6:00, and 6:15, however I don't wake up till the last alarm, then I get to my bus right when it comes, everyday.

I could listen to this guy forever.

I use youtube cause it gives me insights to the thoughts of others giving which on return gives me a wider range of concepts i could act upon .

wake up at 6 am, pack lunch, mix together some work out drinks, head to the gym, work out for an hour, take a shower, and get started on my to do list

this video was one of the best buzzfeed videos i`ve ever seen. thanks a lot, guys.

zefrank FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was one decked out taxi cab. :P

I'm actually inspired at the worst times (school, during homework, when I don't have a notebook)

I have to play minecraft everyday and when i flush the toilet at night i tap my elbow twice.

Watching this video as part of a daily creative process may be a great habit!! Thx!!

I Had a idea for clothes that can turn invis. SO BASICALLY IT WORKS LIKE A PROJECTOR OR SOMETHING THAT ALLOWS YOUR CLOTHE TO BLEND IN WITH THE SURROUNDING BY TINY CAMERAS OR SOMETHING

My schedule is the same everyday except weekends.. Wake up 5:30 am and get ready 7:00 am go to school 3:00 pm go home 3:30-5 pm homework and snacks 5-6:30 pm work out and shower 7:00 pm dinner 11:00 pm sleep and repeat

I'm a writer and a sculptor. I don't have a routine for my sculpting, but for my writing I have a specific setlist I listen to to get my creative juices flowing.

We need more Zefrank on Buzzfeed! There is not enough!

Have a long conversation with myself, question everything then meditate for about 20 to 30 minutes before writing a song.

i like drawing, making stories, and coloring

I don't personally think that one has to take advantage of certain tricks in order to be creative. I believe that the creation process is all about observing things around you and keep your mind constantly active, because in this you are actively capable of abstract associations. You don't need any kind of habit or routine for that, which can actually drain away the mood and make you not want to do that anymore. Well, at least this is the way it works for me ^^

Zefrank rules! I feel so identified with this video! Defenitly need to dig my habits!

His voice is amazing! I want him to read me a bedtime story every night for the rest of my life!! ❤️👌

Saw the title. Knew it would be a ZeFrank video. Felt like a badass when it was.

Excellent cinematography.

is this ZFrank??!!

This was a very creative video indeed. Love the puppet theme - Marionettes is a dying form.

I'm 12 and I can write stories (32), draw people, write songs, can derived chords by myself (guitar and ukulele)

This guys voice is so soothing

That Blue Dream keeping me going.

I would say I'm a pretty creative person. Every day from 4-5 I sit down and make designs.