Creative Writing Confidence- 5 Powerful Ways To Kick Start Your Confidence As A Creative Writer

October 3, 2012 By

Creative Writing Confidence- 5 Powerful Ways To Kick Start Your Confidence As A Creative Writer

How confident are you in your creative writing right now, on a scale of 0 to 10?

If 0 is “I can barely write a word without analysing and criticising it” and 10 is “I can’t stop writing, my confidence is overflowing and has never been higher”, where would you say your confidence in your writing is about now?

If you answered 8 or 9 or 10, then that’s fantastic. Whatever you’ve been doing to get your creative writing confidence to this high level, keep up it up, it’s obviously working well for you.

If your confidence is only 5 or 6 out of 10, or less, then keep reading for 5 powerful ways to kick start your confidence as a writer:

1. Start a small creative writing project – and finish it. Often what drains our confidence is starting ambitious writing project after project, and never getting far with any of them.

Instead, pick something small, something you can begin and end in an hour or two, and feel that satisfaction of seeing a project through every stage.

2. Remember what you’re capable of. We all have creative writing we’ve done in the past that we’re proud of, however well or otherwise our current work is progressing.

Compile a “Greatest Hits” collection of the 5 pieces of writing you’ve been most proud of in your life so far.

3. Pick 20 creative strengths. The fact that you’re a writer at all takes a lot of courage, creativity and commitment. So there’s 3 great strengths you have: courage, creativity, commitment.

List another 17 (or more!) creative strengths you have. If a stranger were to ask your best friends and family what your strengths are, which 20 would THEY list?

4. Keep a Significant Steps journal. Get a notebook and write in it each time you make a step forward in some way with something you’re writing.

It’s easy to forget how far we can come, how we develop as writers, and how much we write, so keeping a journal of our progress can be very valuable in reminding us.

5. Write just for the pleasure of writing. It’s easy to get sucked into large writing projects and get lost, forgetting that writing is supposed to be enjoyable for us!

Write something without attaching an outcome to it, or expecting to have an amazing “product” at the end of it. Write just to enjoy writing.

These are 5 great ways to kick start YOUR creative writing confidence today.

Which one are you going to pick to work on first?

Creative Writing Confidence- 5 Powerful Ways To Kick Start Your Confidence As A Creative Writer

Creative Writing Confidence- 5 Powerful Ways To Kick Start Your Confidence As A Creative Writer

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Creativity Coach and keen creative writer Dan Goodwin helps people who are struggling to be as creative as they know they can be. See more at his website: http://www.CoachCreative.com

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“One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one’s mind.”

– Robert Collier

Repetition of words creates repetition of thoughts.

Repetition of thoughts creates reality.

By intentionally choosing the words that wallpaper your mind, you change the tone of the room in which you live and you change the life you are living.

******* The Power of Words *******

We typically dilute our words by drawing them from vague and conflicted states of mind. We present a muddy impression on the creative medium in which we live and our reality mirrors our dull efforts. This is so easy to remedy that you may actually shock yourself with your radical improvement in results as you become more intentional with your affirmations.

Words are not just signposts that point to meaning. When we use them to simply report what we observe it’s like using a racecar to deliver newspapers.

Words are powerful instruments of manifestation. When given an open road they will perform extraordinary feats.

******* Eliminate These Words *******

We use certain words habitually and somewhat unconsciously. By eliminating them from your affirmations, you will automatically begin implementing 2 of the 3 ways to supercharge your affirmations, without even yet knowing what these 3 ways are.

Here are the words to eliminate:

no, not, don’t, doesn’t, never, won’t, can’t, stop, quit, will, am going to, should, want to, plan to, hope to.

Every time you create an affirmation, check for these words. If you find them, reword your affirmation without them.

******* 3 Superchargers for Your Affirmations *******

Supercharger #1

==>Always Affirm in the Present Tense

When you are creating an affirmation, you are like an artist creating a painting. Whatever you affirm with your paintbrush becomes the reality on the canvas. As an affirmation artist, you do not have colors on your palette. Your words are your paint. You are pulling potential realities from the formless realm into the manifest realm through the narrow birth canal of your carefully chosen words.

Choose your words in the present tense so that the reality you choose becomes experienced now. Now is the only time that has the mystical power to pour forth a manifestation. If you word your affirmations in the future by saying, “I will…,” you keep that carrot dangling in the fictitious future and you pull the plug on the power of your affirmations. A surefire way to begin an affirmation is with the sacred words, “I am…”

Supercharger #2

==> Always Affirm in the Positive

You are bothering to create an affirmation because you are living something unwanted and you desire a change. It is only natural that you would understand your desire as not wanting what you’ve got. But if you point your affirmation toward getting rid of a habit or condition, if you say what you will not do, or if you affirm that something will go away, you are actually chaining yourself to it.

It simply does not work.

In fact you’d be better off not to affirm at all because this sort of negative affirmation is like affirming the opposite of what you want. Remember, to affirm means to make firm. It is the process of bringing things into form. Remember also that the universe does not hear the word “no.” So whatever you are talking about, whether you are affirming or denying it, you are in effect, affirming it.

Instead of saying, “I will quit smoking,” which is both in the future and negative, say something like:

All my actions are healthy and intentional. I choose my actions and I enjoy all my choices. I am in charge of my actions. I have healthy life affirming habits. I love being in charge of my life.

Supercharger #3

==> Feel as if it’s Already True

Once you have a well-chosen phrase to affirm, one that is positive, in the present tense, and feels good when you consider it, enter into its world. Step into the affirmation as if it were already your reality. When you say it, imagine that it is already true. Feel how you would feel if it were already manifest. Steps 1 and 2 build a powerful rocket. Step 3 lights the fuse and sends it off with a blast.

Affirmations can literally change your life. They are free. Everyone has equal access to them, and they work day and night, always ready and willing to bring your good to you. Use these 3 superchargers every time you do an affirmation process and watch your life transform before our eyes.

October 2, 2012 By

Find out more about the power of affirmations at the Affirmative Contemplation website at http://www.AffirmativeContemplation.com . You can receive Dr. Rebbie Straubing’s Free e-Course, 7 Secrets for Manifesting Your Heart’s Desire, at http://www.yofa.net/7secret.html . Dr. Rebbie Straubing is a workshop leader, Abraham Coach, and inspirational writer.

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Creative Writing Secrets- 7 Ways To Be A Better Creative Writer Today

September 28, 2012 By

Creative Writing Secrets- 7 Ways To Be A Better Creative Writer Today

So you want to be a better creative writer?

Every one of us has the ability to improve our creative writing output, both in quantity and quality.

Here are 7 great ways you can use right away to be a better creative writer:

1. Become a sponge. Absorb all that’s around you, the tiny intricate details of the world that most people miss. A cobweb on a leaf, the rhythms of the city, the rise and fall of your partner’s chest as they sleep.

Creative writing that’s rewarding to write – and enjoyable to read – begins with noticing and appreciating the close up snapshots of everyday life.

2. Visit a variety of places and environments. Every time we visit somewhere we’ve never been before, there’s an abundance of new stimulation for our senses.

Become aware of how you feel in different places and environments and which make you feel more creative, and fill you with ideas.

3. Watch classic foreign movies. Without subtitles! By removing one powerful element of communication – speech and language – we can see more clearly how people communicate in other ways.

See how emotions are demonstrated in the subtleties of facial expressions and small gestures. Don’t mute the sound though. Listen to the changes in rhythms in the voices and see how much you can understand even without knowing the words they’re using.

4. Practice little and often. Have a daily ritual of writing creatively, even if it’s just 3 lines of poetry or a couple of paragraphs. Go to a place you can write without distraction and where you feel encouraged to write.

With these routines in place, you begin to “give yourself permission” to store up your creativity in between and let it flow freely in these special time periods.

5. Adjust your personal remote control. Imagine you have your own personal remote control handset, like a TV. Experiment with turning up the volume, increasing the brightness, or changing the colour saturation of the world around you.

Notice how when you focus on each element and increase or decrease the intensity of that element, you can have a more vivid experience of life around you.

6. Practice writing with different length sentences. Start with a medium length sentence, say 12 words, describing a scene. Then add a word at a time to make it more richly descriptive, until it’s double the original length.

Then go the other way, remove a word at a time while keeping the creative and descriptive essence of the sentence. See how few words you can use to still vividly describe the same scene.

7. Observe people’s conversations. Notice how people talk, their voices, the way their tone and volume changes, how they emphasise different words and syllables.

Notice too how people use their faces and hands to add impact to what they’re saying. By being more aware of these details, you can make your own creative writing more rich and realistic.

These are just 7 useful ideas you can put into action today to help you develop your creative writing.

Which are YOU going to put into action next?

Creative Writing Secrets- 7 Ways To Be A Better Creative Writer Today

Creative Writing Secrets- 7 Ways To Be A Better Creative Writer Today

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Creativity Coach and keen creative writer Dan Goodwin helps people who are frustrated they’re not using their creative talents as well as they could be. See more at his website: http://www.CoachCreative.com

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Creative Writing – How To Find & Maintain Your Unique Creative Writing Rhythm

September 19, 2012 By

Creative Writing – How To Find & Maintain Your Unique Creative Writing Rhythm

One of the most important elements to being able to write regularly, deeply, and consistently as a creative writer is to be able to find your own unique creative writing rhythm.

If we don’t learn to listen to, and tune in to, the unique creative rhythm that each of us have, we’ll find it a constant battle to remain motivated and productive in our creative writing projects.

Professional athletes and sports players talk about being “in the zone”, where they’re performing at a peak level and everything flows. We can apply the same principle to writing.

So how do we know when we’re not “in the zone”, when we’re out of sync with our natural creative rhythm?

Some of the tell tale signs are:

Writing inconsistent amounts – 10 pages flow freely one day, but the day after you struggle to string together 10 words.

Being obsessive about tiny details – you spend hours re-writing a single difficult line 30 times, and eventually go back to the first version you came up with.

Sticky Shoes Syndrome – you just can’t get going, writing feels about as easy as wading through treacle in concrete boots. With an elephant on your back.

Losing objectivity – struggling to see the bigger vision in the project you’re writing. It’s like trying to view a mountain range from ground level, instead of flying above in a helicopter to get the overall view of the landscape.

Feeling out of control – you’re aware that sometimes your creative writing flows like Niagara Falls and other days it’s barely as fruitful as a dripping tap. But you have no idea why and you don’t feel in control.

So what’s the secret to overcoming some of these struggles and finding YOUR unique creative rhythm?

Put simply: experimenting and testing.

If you keep doing the same things over and over – the same things that aren’t working – then of course they’re going to continue to not work. And you’ll continue to be inconsistent, erratic and frustrated in your creative writing.

Now I’m not suggesting you have to become an emotionless robot, churning out perfect page after perfect page of creative writing.

Not at all.

There are natural peaks and lulls in our minds and bodies, in our moods and in our personal circumstances. They’re part of being a human being.

But if we learn to recognise these patterns, learn to find when we’re naturally at our best, at our peaks, we can begin to find our creative rhythm.

And when we do that, we reduce the kind of tell tale signs like those above we feel when we’re struggling to create.

So we’re able to create more consistently, more abundantly and more deeply than ever before.

How do you experiment then to help you find your natural creative rhythm?

Here are some of the factors to play around with and see what works best for you:

- The time of day when you write.

- How long you write for.

- How you cope with or eliminate distractions.

- The materials you use to write with.

- Where you write.

- What breaks you have, how long and how often.

- What you do (if anything) to prepare yourself to write.

- Whether you use background music or sounds, or silence.

- How you have your writing space set up physically.

- How you decide when your writing time is over for that session.

Experiment with just one of these variables at a time or you won’t be able to track the changes effectively.

Once you’ve found the best way of working with that particular factor, keep that fixed and move on and adjust the next one.

Follow these guidelines and you’ll be well on your way to finding your own unique creative rhythm. You’ll begin too to see your creative writing reach new levels.

Creative Writing – How To Find & Maintain Your Unique Creative Writing Rhythm

Creative Writing - How To Find & Maintain Your Unique Creative Writing Rhythm

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Creative Writing Prompts- A Cure For The Dreaded “Blank Screen Paralysis”

September 15, 2012 By

Creative Writing Prompts- A Cure For The Dreaded “Blank Screen Paralysis”

Picture the scene. You head off to your creative workspace, head full of great ideas, ready to get writing and create wonderful, rich, three-dimensional characters in believable, realistic scenarios.

You’re keen to write the stories that will touch and inspire people, make them say “that character spoke to me, I’m just like them!”.

You open your notebook, switch on your computer, sit down, and… er, nothing happens, that’s it.

For all your ambition and great intentions, you don’t know where to start. You can’t think what to write. You begin to wonder if you can even string together a couple of sentences, let alone a complete story or novel.

You’re in the grip of the dreaded “Blank Screen Paralysis”.

Also known as creative block, or writer’s block.

But don’t give up, because there’s a way this story can still have a happy ending.

Creative writing prompts are an excellent tool to combat writer’s block.

A creative writing prompt is a small phrase, idea, or picture that can be used to kick start your creative writing. They provide that initial little push we sometimes need to get our creative writing going.

Once we have got going, the momentum easily builds and we can write freely and deeply.

Creative writing prompts can be used as and when you need them, for example when you feel you’re hit with some kind of creative block. But the great thing is, by using creative writing prompts regularly, you actually begin to create more easily without them.

Using them often means your mind begins to learn new ways of approaching your writing and finding starting points when it feels there aren’t any. In a short space of time of using creative writing prompts written by others, you quickly begin to automatically come up with your own.

If you haven’t used creative writing prompts before, try them out today and realise what a wonderful tool they can be to enhance your creative writing.

Creative Writing Prompts- A Cure For The Dreaded “Blank Screen Paralysis”

Creative Writing Prompts- A Cure For The Dreaded

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A Few Ideas About Creative Writing

September 7, 2012 By

A Few Ideas About Creative Writing

Creative writing, or the will be creative within the boundaries of your writing is a part of the makeup of any writer. This leads to the desire to produce work that is unique and informative. All the while the idea of being a creative writer means that you are willing to take a fiction or non-fiction book and maintain the facts or the rules of the work. Any writer can be creative in many areas: blogging and online writing, writing nonfiction, and creative writing.

Creative writing is the biggest of these three general ideas, and if it not a more academic piece, can be used with most any style of writing.

This does not mean that editing your work should come second place, rather you should be creative and be willing to expand on how your work is written. For example, if a writer is writing a non-fiction piece, which is not an essay style or a research paper can benefit from the use of some creative writing methods, such as a narrative format in the writing.

This does mean that you as both writer and editor you will need to decide what is the best method for being creative. Some times it is helpful to brainstorm and write whatever comes into your head to get your ideas flowing. This is a great way to be creative in terms of creative writing. Most writers will benefit from methods like brainstorming.

This works especially well with novels where your characters are evolving- at least in the rough draft stage- so outlining is a good practice as well. Still, a great way to be more creative in your writing is to write your chapters in the format of a short story with the larger picture still intact. Often this improves the way a writer will write.

The goal must be to publish a book which is interesting for readers and has a point and focus. The writer has one goal, the book must be creative enough to be memorable, yet grounded enough that the reader will enjoy the creative flow.

Another way of viewing creative writing is that it is you and your mind that creates the original content and you work to prefect it over time. Again it is not meant as an excuse to continually have “work in progresses” for many years. There is a time and a place to be creative and a time and place to publish that creative writing.

A Few Ideas About Creative Writing

A Few Ideas About Creative Writing

Rebecca is the author of many hubs HubPages including Money and Hubpages I don’t Get this Hubpages Thing http://hubpages.com/hub/This-Hub-Pages-Thing-I-dont-Get-It and writes about writing on the blog called: Living a Life of Writing. Rebecca publishes lenses on Squidoo where you can read Writing and Publishing: The Ten Things List http://www.squidoo.com/tenbestthingsaboutwriting-publishing.

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Creative Writing- 3 Key Reasons Why You’re Not Reaching Your Creative Writing Potential

September 5, 2012 By

Creative Writing- 3 Key Reasons Why You’re Not Reaching Your Creative Writing Potential

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 reasons why we don’t reach our potential. Here are 3 of the most common, and some top tips on how to overcome them:

1. You haven’t found your best writing format. Everyone has their favourite methods of writing, the ones in which we’re comfortable and competent in. Maybe yours is short stories, or poems, or novels.

But often we continue to write in this format because we feel it’s all we know how to do, it just comes automatically. Though we feel we’ve got much more potential to be discovered, we can’t seem to unlock it through this form of writing we’re used to.

Top Tips to try: Try different types of writing, those you’d never even consider, those you’ve never tried before, those you haven’t even discovered yet. You might find a new form that lets you unleash that creative potential like never before.

At the very least, you’ll return to your main writing medium a richer, more experienced creative writer.

2. You don’t write often enough. What not-so-secret method helps a creative writer improve more than anything else? Writing!

If you’re only writing once in a while and have serious ambitions to develop your creative writing potential, you’ll simply have to write more widely, more deeply and more often. There’s no avoiding it!

Top Tips to try: Regularity is the key. Commit to writing for a small period of time every day for 14 days. You could start with just 10 minutes, but make sure you stick to it every day.

Write a few paragraphs on a new piece of work each day or just whatever’s in your thoughts at the time. The crucial part is to write consistently every day, then you can build up the amount gradually.

3. You don’t believe in your creative ability. On the surface you appear to be writing at a good standard and at a healthy steady rate of output.

But inside you long to burst out of the familiar straightjacket and let your creative writing talent run wild. What stops you? On a deep level you simply don’t believe you’ve got it in you.

Top Tips to try: Think about what you truly believe about your creative writing ability. Write down all your beliefs around your creative writing ability. If you find you actually don’t believe you’re capable of taking your writing to a new level, you’ll never progress.

Start to adopt the beliefs that are consistent with someone who reaches a little closer to their creative potential every day. Think about what someone who’s confident and creative believes about themselves and take on those beliefs yourself.

These are just 3 of the most common reasons why we don’t reach our potential for writing creatively.

Pick one that you identify with and try the tips suggested to help you become a better creative writer TODAY.

Creative Writing- 3 Key Reasons Why You’re Not Reaching Your Creative Writing Potential

Creative Writing- 3 Key Reasons Why You're Not Reaching Your Creative Writing Potential

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Prosperity’s 12 Affirmations are 12 powerful affirmations of prosperity and well-being drawn from the 10 Commandments (Exodus 20:1-17) and the book Prosperity’s 10 Commandments by Georgiana Tree West. The 11th and 12th affrimations are inspired by Jesus’ 2 great commandments found in Matthew 22:37-39. Prosperity’s first 4 affirmations help to internalize ideas that contribute to establishing a prospering relationship with the Fundamental Creative Energy of the Universe – God. In this article we will look at four affirmations, which will help you internalize ideas that aid in creating prospering relationships with other people. As you use these affirmations to create your abundant life, you will begin to establish habits of language and action that will enable you to create mutually prospering relationships with other people. Affirm these affirmations daily and you make these powerful prosperity principles a basic part of your life experience.

Four Affirmations for Prospering Relationships with Others

“I maintain my highest integrity when connecting with God and interacting with God’s agents of my wealth”. Perhaps this affirmation should be “I am faithful to God and respectful of people”. The key to success with this affirmation is to stay conscious of our relationship to God, our only Source of supply. Then we will remember that others are also connected to the God-Source. In this consciousness we create the possibility for everyone with whom we interact to bless us in some way. However, we must be open and receptive to the blessing. When we maintain our integrity and treat people with respect, we empower them and they are likely to empower us, quite possibly in unexpected ways.

“I keep my wealth circulating and creating blessings for others and for me”. The Commandment upon which this affirmation is based is “Thou Shalt Not Murder”. Habitual thoughts of poverty and limitation are murderers of prosperity. We affirm this affirmation in language and in action through our generosity, tithing and giving. In using this affirmation we are creating our experience of the unimpeded circulation of wealth and abundance.

“I only use my wealth for creative, uplifting, enlightening, joyful and life affirming purposes”. This affirmation helps us to keep our motives and uses for money pure and unadulterated. We remind ourselves that money is Love in action and we focus on the positive uses of our money as a pure expression of love. With this affirmation we exercise the power of intention. When we create a field of clear intention we take advantage of the natural processes of creation to yield the object or service for which we expended a portion of our wealth but we have the added benefit of spiritual and emotional satisfaction because others are blessed and benefited by our intentions and actions.

“I always give generous and fair compensation for value received”. This affirmation helps us practice the Law of Compensation which reminds us that when we are attempting to get something for nothing, we are actually trying to steal. However, when we are willing to give fair compensation for everything we receive, we stay in the continuous flow of prosperity.

Next Steps Take action by repeating these affirmations until they feel natural to you. You may want to craft your own version of these affirmations to really make them yours. The time and energy you invest in working with the affirmations will pay large dividends in your experience of prosperity and abundance.

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One of the things you can do to accelerate your progress is to engage in conversations based on these four affirmations with family, friends and acquaintances. I invite you to visit Prosperity’s 12 Affirmations Blog, http://www.prosperingtimes.com/blog and if you wish to powerfully accelerate the potency of this affirmative process, accept our invitation to subscribe to the complimentary e-course “Introduction to Prosperity’s 12 Affirmations at http://www.prosperingtimes.com/Intro2P12Registration.html

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Creative Writing – 5 Reasons Why You’re Not Reaching Your Creative Writing Potential

August 26, 2012 By

Creative Writing – 5 Reasons Why You’re Not Reaching Your Creative Writing Potential

All of us are capable of being highly creative, it’s the way we were born, our natural state.

Think about how curious a child is in its early years, how much it wants to explore and find out and investigate.

Unfortunately the majority of us have lost these creativity and curiosity tendencies by the time we become adults.

But it’s never too late to regain them.

Through creative writing we can go a long way to explore our creative potential and express the ideas we have.

But even if you’re a regular creative writer yourself, it’s unlikely you’re actually achieving anywhere near your potential.

Why?

Here are 5 reasons why you may not be reaching YOUR creative writing potential:

1. You’re afraid of being left out or excluded. Being part of a social group or community is a very strong human need. If for example you’re in a creative writing class and your writing is obviously on a different level to everyone else’s, there’s the fear you might be seen as “having it easy” and be resented by others in the class. So you tone down your writing and write well within your capabilities.

2. You just don’t believe you’re very creative. Even if you’re the most naturally gifted writer in the world, unless you have a strong belief in yourself and your abilities, you’ll always hold yourself back. Even if you have encouragement from others, you’ll never achieve more than you BELIEVE you can achieve. So to achieve more, work on those beliefs.

3. You haven’t found the right form of expression. If you’re more naturally inclined to be a novelist and all you’ve written is poetry, you might have always struggled in your writing. Experiment with different forms of creative writing, give each time to develop, and find the ones that you feel most comfortable and most expressive in.

4. You don’t know what it’s like to achieve. Maybe in your life you’ve never had a role model or example of what it’s like to push yourself, to stretch yourself towards achieving your natural creative potential. So for you, underachieving, and playing it safe, is the only way you know how to be.

5. You’re scared of failing. On the surface you tell yourself you don’t have time to write more, or you don’t have the correct set up, and other excuses. But really, you’re just scared of writing more, and exploring your creative writing abilities, because you don’t want to fail. The only true failure is not giving it your best shot in the first place.

These are 5 common reasons why we don’t achieve our creative writing potential.

Which do you most relate to? Be completely honest with yourself, which of them can you recognise in yourself?

The next step, once you’ve recognised why you’re not reaching your creative potential, is to start taking action to get you closer to it.

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Using Writing, Speaking, and Words to Open The Creative Mind to Innovate

August 25, 2012 By

Using Writing, Speaking, and Words to Open The Creative Mind to Innovate

It’s not easy become a superstar of creativity or a master of innovation, and yet, it is not as hard as you might think either. Not long ago, I met an individual who invented some software that helped promote the innovative mind by re-combining areas of the human endeavor in unique ways. The software worked on the theory of randomness, although, I’d hardly call it totally random. After the software combined stuff it would ask questions and the user could determine if the matched phrases brought up any ideas.

Sure enough it did, pretty cool indeed. Still, you do not need software to do this, as you can do it with your writing or speaking without computer assisted help. Here is how I’ve done it in the past. I decided to write 1,000s of articles of about 250 words each, but then I ran out of things to write about so, I took words from the dictionary and started combining them. For instance with the “A’s” I used abate, accelerate, advance, aerial, after, against. Notice the Ab, Ac, Ad, Ae, Af and Ag at the start of each word.

Then I’d say them out loud and try to make titles to articles or headlines out of them like; Accelerated Abatement of Advance Aerial, what? Then I’d try to finish the sentence or heading and I might add something like Accelerated Abatement of Advanced Aerial – Design Materials for Stealth Aircraft. So, then I’d write 250 words on this topic, do some research, ask more questions and let my mind go, until I came up with something innovative, novel, intriguing or worthy. See, how you can use words, writing and speed to be hyper creative?

Using Writing, Speaking, and Words to Open The Creative Mind to Innovate

Using Writing, Speaking, and Words to Open The Creative Mind to Innovate

Lance Winslow – Lance Winslow’s Bio. Lance Winslow is also Founder of the Detail Guys, a cool little Franchise Company; http://www.detailguys.com/founder.shtml/.

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