Category: Creativity

Creativity is the hardest aspect of writing to fully describe yet without creativity we would not want to write.

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Have you ever found yourself feeling drained and all out of ideas? Wouldn’t it be great if we could just plug ourselves in and charge up our creativity again? This has happened to me a lot. Which is why I have put together everything I have learned about what to do when your creativity is gone. You have a full day of working, driving your family everywhere, cooking, tidying and getting ready to do it all again the next day. You eventually …

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Creativity is an essential part of writing fiction. Sometimes this is easy. Your brain is throwing out ideas and suggestions faster than you can write. It feels like a river in full flow. But, then there are times when there are no ideas. Your brain feels empty. The river has completely dried up and there is only a dried out river bed. There are ways to boost your creativity so that it does not become a mental block. Especially if you have …

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Better weather can make us reminisce about what we did during our younger summers. The freedom of unlimited time to play with no constraints felt amazing. What if you could capture that feeling again, even if it was only for a short while? You can use play to help improve your writing. That is what I want to talk about in this blog post. Not only is play beneficial for our mental health but also for our writing. And if you have …

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Increasing creativity sounds like creativity is a dial and all you have to do is turn up the dial and creativity levels are increased. Well, if that image works for you it is not too far off. I have written here about how creativity is not a mystical process. When you understand what affects creativity then you are able to control your creativity levels. Like anything to do with the human brain, there will be times when it is very difficult and …

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Some successful creatives – artists, authors, etc. make creativity sound like some magical, mystical event that only a lucky few are even able to experience, never mind interpreting what the muse tells them. I think creativity is more accessible than that. And it is a bigger part of our lives than many people presume. I want to demystify creativity so that it does not become a mental block that stops you from writing. Everyday Creativity Psychology Today includes  the ‘daily acts of …

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Are you writing what you want to write or what you think you ‘should’ write? The stories that I want to write all fit into the fantasy genre. Trying to generate ideas for any other genre is a struggle for me. It is one of the reasons why it took me so long to just sit down and write. Even though I had qualifications. I had ideas. But I did not feel that writing what I wanted to write was valid. I …

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