I need a world that has beauty. That I'd like to actually go to. At the same time that it has strife....

Out and out dystopia is off the table, at least to start with... That, at least combined with fear of failure, makes incredibly dark dystopian stuff beyond me. Just don't want to go back to it day after day.

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In the ruined abandoned remains of a once magnificent city a ghost sobs forever. Somehow tied to Worlock-SP.

Had this story idea of person like in a concentration camp or something torturous who somehow develops some strange possibly pyschic connections with someone

That other relates back to SP's Glass Houses. The red plain. He must be doing something there. I suppose he's trying to not starve to death or get killed. He's not human. Anymore

A ghost, I suppose, invisible I guess. Such pain that like the chronic pain sufferers he's sort of zombiefied. And he's trying to return to the world. By some painstaking difficult process.

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All these ideas are so negative. Unhappiness may spark creativity. But it's just sparks. To actually get keep a fire going, it's exactly the wrong thing. Creativity must ultimately have something positive fueling it.