Dear_one wrote:
You could grow some food or decorative plants. You could buy and sell things that interest you, doing minor repairs to give them new life. You could make a new bike from bits of junked bikes, and customize it. You could write a short story. You could make a map of your neighborhood, showing things too small for other maps. You could volunteer at a charity or hospital. You could pick a subject and study it on-line. You could prepare for climate change, and probably should.
Those are grand ideas.
An example from my life;
Way back in the 1970s in 8th or 9th grade while in school library reading a book of Star Trek short stories there was one which began with 'the ship was beautiful' either right at the beginning or in the first couple sentences.
Hmm ... what would a beautiful ship look like coming from my own being?
A couple weeks later I had a style.
Hmm ... now the ship needs people; the people need a story ... what kind of story would I like to read?
And I've been writing and drawing and making miniatures on and off since then: work on it for a couple months; put it away for a couple years; work on it for a couple months; put it away for a couple years; rinse and repeat.
Have discovered that even though I can not connect with reading books on electronic devices I totally love writing and editing on a PC.
Taking Dear_one's ideas and running with them ...
Write and do illustrations for a story about someone who rescues rehabs and customizes junked bikes along with buying and selling bike parts then while testing them and searching for more maps the neighborhood and discovers something. That something could be about the neighborhood, about the residents, about the character themself. Perhaps the character also uses the different bikes to take plants to and from a residential care center where the character volunteers and also helps care for the plants.
Perhaps the story character sometimes rides off to an isolated spot to practice an instrument they don't feel any good at but would like to play.
As part of the 'research' for the story, if money, time, and transportation allow, it might be possible to actually volunteer somewhere from time to time. And your own experiences could be used to detail scenes in your story.
Way back when I volunteered one summer with the Red Cross as assistant to a recreation director for a residential care center. Another summer I volunteered with the city as a summer school library assistant.
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"There are a thousand things that can happen when you go light a rocket engine, and only one of them is good."
Tom Mueller of SpaceX, in Air and Space, Jan. 2011