Every creative project and every invention ever brought into being began with a single idea. Without ideas we have no raw material to work with, no starting point, and no hope of being creative. By using an Ideas Journal you can help yourself have a steady stream of new creative ideas, and the more you [...]
Anyone who creates needs a steady influx of new ideas. Everything every created, everything ever invented, began with a tiny gem of an idea in someone’s mind. Every single one began the same way. So it follows that if we don’t have any ideas to work with, we’re not going to be able to create [...]
Do you struggle to have enough good creative ideas? The trouble with creative ideas is they’re often a little shy. And a little nervous. They need coaxing and encouraging, and don’t tend to rush up in a clown costume with blaring trumpets going “LA LA LA we’re heee-errrre!” to any party they’re invited (or not [...]
When you are sharing your pictures or power point slides, you join your words with the pictures to enhance your explanation of your topic. Think about what kind of word pictures you can paint for your reader who may not be able to see your real pictures. Word pictures can be such a great experience [...]
Creative writing gives many different benefits and pleasures to many different people. We don’t all write for the same reasons, we each have our deeper values and motives for why we write. However, there ARE common motivations that all of us who write creatively share. One of these is simply because it’s enjoyable. It helps [...]
Creative Writing is something that everyone is capable of. And we can all improve our creative writing – and our enjoyment of it – in a great number of ways. One of the key factors to writing creatively and freely is confidence. It doesn’t matter how talented you are as a writer, if you lack [...]
I’ve always had a lot of fun with writing, word play, puns, and that sort of thing. They just amuse me. The benefit is that these word games are a great way to increase your language skills and become a better writer. Start with word puns, acronyms and synonyms. Just have fun. I actually am [...]
A great number of us have creative writing talents far greater than we realise. But despite this, most of us simply aren’t writing creatively anywhere near as well, as much, or as often as we could be. Why is this? Surely if we truly want to write creatively it’ll just naturally flow? There are many [...]
In this world of slander, liable and blacklist, there is little span for creativity, writing robotically is not an efficient way to allure the readers and retain their interest. Creative writing is the powerful tool that is used to express feelings and thoughts of a person in imaginative and poetic way rather than to covey [...]
Live and write from your sweet spot: the place where your core values intersect with your core talents + life experiences. Experience greater fulfillment by discovering your writing purpose. By that I mean what you want to share with others. Books like Chicken Soup For The Soul and magazines like Reader’s Digest and Guideposts are [...]