The world is not in your books and maps. It's out there.
Are you creatively stuck?
It might have nothing to do with what you're doing creatively and more to do with your physical environment.
Maybe you need to... “hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves,”
You Need a Sam Gamgee
It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been a creative, Resistance will still fight you. I’ve been creating since I could hold a crayon or a pencil. I have 35-year-old notebooks filled with artwork and short stories. But I still face Resistance on a daily—if not hourly—basis.
There is no defeating it once and for all. It’s a fight you will wage over and over and over again. Consider it part of the creative process.