Casual Conversation

Drawing stick figures on note paper counts as creativity. Hell, XKCD has an entire long-running comic out of just stick figures.

If you have a phone with a camera you can try playing with taking photos, and editing those in creative ways as well.

At the end of the day, though, everyone starts somewhere and being “great” at something is irrelevant as long as you enjoy what you’re doing. Practice can help you get better, but being creative is mainly about having a fun activity that makes you happy.

If a book or game seems too big and daunting (cuz yeah of course those are huge commitments!), you could always shoot for something smaller in scale. Like short poetry or short stories for writing, or maybe a small Minecraft mod to get your feet wet with the development side of things (or whatever moddable game you currently enjoy).

I'm not good at either, so I can't help much further than that. But hopefully starting small seems more doable?

• Poetry, since it's writing but less than a book
• Photography (and that's no shade, i love it, but it has levels and can definitely be the simplest thing to get into)
• For textiles? Knitting

Cooking is also pretty creative and food is something you need to do to survive.

Why stop yourself from writing? First drafts can be as messy as you want, you’re telling the story to yourself and finding what works. Any problems with spelling or formatting (or pacing, characters, plot, etc) can be worked on further drafts if you feel like sharing it with the world, and autocorrect is good enough to get most of the easy issues anyway.

You don’t even need a computer! You can write long form if you feel like it ✍️ there’s no limits! Write poetry, prose, manifestos, whatever floats your boat

Any creative work qualifies? Music is pretty approachable. You can learn a few basic theory things to get ideas, or just play around with random notes to see what sounds good. Don't have to be any good, you can get LMMS or another midi editor/tracker and write it without skill at an instrument.

For writing prose in particular, maybe short stories would be easiest? Just because they aren't so long. Still takes creativity for ideas tho.

Idk, I think an important perspective is to remember it doesn't have to be good (assuming you're doing this for fun or learning, not as a job right away). Just create. Then, you'll look at what you made and see how it sucks and get ideas for what to do differently next round. You mention not having the skills, but you can just try to do all things and see how it goes.

I'm sure many disagree with me, but I consider lofi electronica to be the music equivalent of "splash some paint on a canvas and call it abstract art". It can be pretty chill to listen to, but making it doesn't require much talent.

Abstract art. Whatever you want can “represent” whatever thought or feeling you say it does.

I’m not saying that the work of abstract artists isn’t creative. My point is that most people can’t tell the difference between a Jackson Pollock work and the results of giving a toddler unsupervised access to the paint cabinet.

Poetry is short and simple, really releases all your emotions

(Examples: !ocpoetry@piefed.social)

Or short stories

Or sometimes I work on my memoir (which I constantly find myself procrastinating on lol) and try to paint the scene with words... and like just writing and proofreading really takes me back though the "memory-time-machine" and I feel that moment, remember the happiness of that moment.

In line with your description, I'd say the hardest part of a journey is the first step. And having focus issues myself (likely not dyslexia though), I'd say it's possible to find means to circumvent, mitigate or even use as stepping stones such limitations.

But on the easiest option, I'd suggest drawing, specially short comics. Xkcd is a bunch of stickmen going through silly science situations, One-Punch Man started as very crude doodles, and Sarah Scribbles' earlier comics are... a thing. But in all cases, they either improved, worked out despite how basic or crude they were, or even worked out because of such.

You didn't need to worry too much about the dyslexia. Writers fuck up all the time. That's what proofreaders and editors are for.

Anyway if writing doesn't work out, you could draw, paint, or hell do collage or something.

Recently made a baby board book about colors. Each page just had a collage of magazine images representing a different color. You can make a book with beautiful imagery And very little (or no) writing for babies/children.

A crafting how-to book would be by far one of the simplest things a person could write, and as Richard Scarry used to show in his how-to books, anthro animals could be used to depict them.

I miss writing essays.