Inspiration can come from anywhere, it doesn’t always have to start with a theme. Seeing things around me and constantly having the egos in mind helped in coming up with new ideas. Watching my brothers and cousins grow up inspired a lot of the Demon Babs and Baby Googles AU. This river I drove past everyday inspired Jackie’s boatman character in Ghost Hunted. The imagery from the movie Mary and the Witch’s flower inspired the Wizards of the Old Magic AU.

A lot of my current and favorite AUs were heavily inspired by songs (some are listed in my master list) so I highly recommend going out and consuming new media if you really want new or more ideas. If you like the vibes of something, a song, a tv show, a book, steal it’s theme and apply it to your blorbos and boom, new AU

I also recommend talking to people about it to get fresh perspectives. New people can help bring out parts of a story or different aspects of a character that can flesh out an AU or inspire new ones. You can see the birth of my Demon Harem, Red Strings, Anti with tentacles and even my baby bird boi Nachtkrapp Henrik AUs right here on my tumblr through asks and reblogs with other people lol

Also, don’t force yourself out of a creative block by doing the same things over and over, that’s how you get burn out. Do something new like try a new theme, style, or practice with a specific focus or step away and let new inspiration or motivation lead you back.

Dont be hard of yourself either (easier said then done i know) and let yourself create shitty work. If you wanna have a good idea, you gotta have a lot of bad ones first. Dont commit if you don’t want to. There’s plenty of aus I’ve abandoned over the years and the ones I truly enjoyed working on have stuck around