Want to enhance your creativity? Start a writing journal and write a few sentences every day: not only will you be more creative, you’ll be more productive as well. Here’s why: Your writing journal breaks your inertia and conquers creative anxiety; You’ll start thinking like a ...
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Creative Anxiety: 3 Ways To Write Even If You’re Stressed
If you’re creative, you’ll feel creative anxiety. The good news: over time, you get used to feeling anxious at the beginning of every writing session. Anxiety, although it feels unpleasant, is natural and normal. The poet T. S. Eliot said: “anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity,” so ...
Writing Tools: Use Your Spare Minutes To Write
Do you wish you had more time to do the things you’d like to do? In our writers’ group meeting, we discussed writing tools which can help us to save time and get more done. This inspired me because in 2019, writing has dropped off my radar. I don’t have hours to write. Although I’ve had spare ...
Become An Author Even If You’re Terrified Of Publishing
One writer who’s attending our monthly writing group get-togethers admitted that she’s terrified of publishing. She was surprised at how many of us admitted we felt the same way. “Use a pen name,” someone urged. This author writes erotica; in his day job he’s an accountant. “Blog,” ...
Creativity: 4 Habits To Build Your Creative Inspiration
In our February writer’s group meeting we discussed creativity. Three writers in the group were blocked, and several others struggled to get back to regular writing after Christmas and New Year. I’ve found this too. If I take more than a week off from writing, it seems as if I’ve got out of the ...
Writing Fiction: 3 Tips To Boost A Sagging Novel
You love writing fiction when you begin your novel. Your inspiration soars. You’re convinced that your novel’s central idea is the best idea you’ve ever had. Sooner or later however, usually after the first 25% of your novel, you flag. You doubt your plot and your characters. If you’re not ...
