Creativity is fun. Self discovery is fun. We accomplish creativity by asking questions. We set up a set of principles to work with and then push them to the limits. Everybody has some creativity, like everybody has height or weight or intelligence.
Some people have more of an attribute than others.
Creativity can be self taught. To me, this was not an enjoyable experience. So I started experimenting and came up with some unique results, while my lack of precision began to take center stage. Make them all different. Instead of adding solid pieces of fabric for the non-appliqued blocks, you can add paper piecing.