#selfsaid

Cannabis is popular with people in the arts, but reduces creativity by some measures, when investigated (1).

Schizotypes are overrepresented in the arts.

Prepulse inhibition (ex. lessened reaction to a loud sound after a softer one is made) is lessened in schizotypes.

All the kinds of top-down sensory filtering are similar.

One such is filtering self-generated stimuli.

Professional poets are overrepresented in the first-degree relatives of schizophrenics.

"It can help you with your rhyme flow and your beat-box" 'America’s Most Blunted' -MF DOOM

"We are all felines. Siamese cat balls. They stand out. I had a cat, a manx, still around here somewhere. You'll know him when you see him. His name is GI Joe; he's black and white. I have a goldfish too, like a clown. Happy Halloween down. Down." 'Clanging' is a symptom of schizophrenia where speech is connected through semantics and sounds, rather than falling into logical coherence.

If you're unable to write, this could easily be the issue: the most natural written continuations you can create for your prompting idea might not be close enough to your natural output, and so each one needs to be manually generated, rather than the process letting you fall into a flow state.

To avoid this, you should be doing daily pages (writing whatever comes to mind, for a couple of pages) somehow. Whatever process gets you doing the production: myself, I set an alarm for 15 minutes before my usual wake time, rolled over to my phone when it went off, and started writing just pure stream-of-consciousness whatever, without caring about spelling or flow.

I find stream-of-consciousness writing gets the natural turns out of your system, and the more purely it's a stream the more purely it's capturing your natural direction at the time. You can get some good stories and concepts out of it, as well.

You could write a diary, or a really detailed daily planner, or angry letters to the editor, or lurid ero-guro TTRPG supplements, or stage directions for imaginary music videos, whatever. Just so long as you're doing a couple pages of natural-voice planning-free text continuations.

I do this on my phone, because there's zero resistance to the process. Open a notepad, and that's the only action before you start writing. You want to get into a loop of 'consider writing - open pad and write - check pad and transfer' over some period of time, as a habit to invoke anytime you have a spare moment on your phone. If you're mindlessly scrolling, you've probably built up some unfulfilled desire to do something to the world (will-to-power-fulfillment-deficit), and writing is an easy way to satisfy that hunger.