Creative Outlet

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My outlet is writing, but I guess this could applies to whatever form your creativity might take (music, painting, cartooning, whatever).

I used to pretty much define myself as a writer when I was a kid, but I never had any support for it (my mom pretty nagged me NOT to write and I never found any peers who liked to write) so I basically stopped in high school, and the urge to write gradually died out over the last decade. Meanwhile, I've gotten increasingly depressed over the years and felt like I lacked a focus.

Now, I'm trying to get back into writing again, my body is like urging me to do it again, but I just can't figure out how to start (it basically boils down to maybe perfectionism - not knowing what to write and not knowing how to start and so convincing myself that I just can't find the time).

But I'm wondering, have you ever given up something that you felt you were designed to do, and the found you had a hole you could never fill? Did you try to pick it up again later on? Part of me feels ashamed that I've wasted all these formative years not writing, and I wonder if I can ever "catch up" to where I should've been. But then part of me thinks that a lot of problems I face (depression, sleeping problems) could be helped if I just rediscovered my creative outlet. Think there's any truth to that?

The more time you spend thinking about time that was wasted, the more time you are not spending developing your skills I might take a while but you can definately get back into it. Especially because it's an intrinsic value that you possess that you now have an opportunity to fully realise, but of course only if you make it happen. Now stop reading this and write something!

I previously did doodles (linky) but I am looking into photography - something I enjoy. I really need to get a decent camera.

I write and draw.

Don't have one.

It's not really a creative outlet, but I stopped rollerblading a few years back and I feel lousy about doing so now. I was pretty good for a kid.

I do writing, anyhow I know how you feel since when I was little I wanted to go into game design but everyone nagged me into not doing that either. However I have read about it and thought of attending one in Vancouver in a few years to see if I would be any good.

the only thing im really creative at is painting, i tend to use bright colors to make all of my pictures look unreal, or like a dream. i must say i am a terrible writer and got all F's when i was in school in english