>>269598
You're welcome.
And to elaborate a little bit, the bit of theory of mind that is most useful is the ability to understand how a regular person who has not experienced your creation and has no idea what you were thinking will try to approach your creation and what their experience and impressions would be. Empathy for ignorance and innocent curiosity, I suppose you could call it. That's an important skill when it comes to bridging the gap between your imagination and the impression of the person on the receiving end. A simple way to practice this is to read real-world diaries, non-fictionalized autobiographical stories, etc. Another is to simply take time people-watching and just try to understand how people are feeling. And yet another method is to hone your self-reflection by taking a day and just spending that day imagining your life and memories from when you were youngest to the current day and just looking at yourself in your mind's eye. You've definitely lived long enough to fill up one day with such serious recollection and reflection. This is basically developing the ability look at yourself in the mirror through your mind's eye and with that ability to reconcile an outside perspective on yourself with the inner perspective you must've had you can also gain a better inner perspective on others. You don't need to understand their life stories or what must've happened in their day. It's just about trying to mentally develop a feel for other people's state of mind, their mood, and how they probably feel about doing things or how they would probably look at things in that moment. That's how you train empathy.
Now back to the subject of the mindset of making, basically you want to develop a feel for what the end result should be like and work on building it out from the ground up. You conceptualize whatever important quality (or qualities) you want to bring out and try to let that guide you as you build out whatever you're making. And then you ask yourself how do I make this feel good? How do I craft that experience? And everything is malleable in service to that and it'll involve experimentation. You don't have to be rigid and do things the way others have done it, but you can also copy what others have done if that fits well and produces something good (that is the important part). Just make sure to keep your eye on the ball of your own creative vision as you do it (but it's more than fine to adjust your creative vision if you keep getting better ideas along that way - unless you're the kind of person who'll get bogged down into a forever project or endless restarts that way). That's the difference between being creative and derivative, I suppose.
And I'm quite serious about stuff like mood music and evocative art (as does stuff like rainymood) working wonders for giving you an impression, a mental environment of mood and what kind of life that feels like, that you can really breathe life into as a creative endeavor. There's much more than that that you can draw inspiration from of course. It gets easier the better you get at developing a feel for things and and a feel for life in its varied contexts and forms. Honing empathy helps also, when you get a feel for how people experience emotional, physical, social, etc. environments. There's a lot of depth in the human experience, after all.
Hope that helped and made things a bit clearer. I'm kind of explaining general creativity here which makes it harder to avoid being vague.