1 don't worry about expensive gear , shoot during the gold hour ,use ugly things as your subject, deliberately limit yourself, take an art class , use a traditional camera , study the work of other photographers, move your own positions as you shoot , experiment with new techniques and don't be to quick to delete photos  you may not like right now.

2 taking a art class so it can help me to know what i want to take a pic of

3  um shooting during the gold hour what does that even mean

4 nope