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 the confidence to write and to explore your writing potential you simply won’t create as well or as often as you’re capable of creating.
So here are 5 powerful tips to help you increase YOUR self-confidence as a creative writer –
1. Believe you’re creative. If you didn’t believe you were capable of writing creatively at all, you wouldn’t even be trying, so you’re off to a great start. Now you can build on this core belief.
One way of doing this is to spend some time visualizing how your life would be if you were wildly successful as a creative writer, whatever “wildly successful” means to you.
Put yourself into this future visualization of yourself as strongly as possible. Ask yourself what beliefs you hold about yourself that have enabled you to be this creative, this successful. Then start bringing them into your life today.
2. Use your senses. So much of the time we walk round virtually oblivious to the highly sensory world around us. We may as well stick cotton wool in our ears, a sock in our mouth and bag over our heads!
It’s through our senses we connect with and experience the world. Take some time to go somewhere new and practice using your senses. Concentrate on each of your senses one at a time, what you’re really seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling.
Do this regularly and you’ll have an abundance of rich experiences to draw upon in your writing, which in turn will increase your confidence to write.
3. Set small achievable goals. If you haven’t written for a while - months or even years maybe - then to set yourself the task of writing a new novel this weekend is ambitious at best. At worst it’s simply setting yourself up for major disappointment and blow to your confidence.
Instead, set smaller achievable steps. For example, “Today I’m going to write 250 words about the past life of my book’s new character Jake.”
Start small to build your confidence, then add more challenging tasks for yourself as you go.
4. Write aimlessly. By this I mean don’t set out to write a perfect wartime romance, or a wonderful poem about the cherry trees in your back yard.
It’s great to have writing ideas and aims like this but the problems come when we get too attached to them. Then, when our creative writing takes us elsewhere, instead of exploring what could be a wonderful new direction, we just feel we’ve failed in writing the piece we set out to write.
Pick an inspiring starting point, then just let your imagination – and creative writing – flow wherever it wants to.
5. Join a supportive group. Being able to share with other writers is a very rewarding experience. It can be very supportive and healthy for our confidence on two levels.
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Firstly, with other creative writers we get to share our creative writing, the work we produce, and get their feedback, tips and ideas, as each of us look to develop ourselves.
Secondly, we’re able to share the experience of being a creative writer. The joys, the frustrations, the rewards and the disappointments. Knowing that others feel similarly to us can be very reassuring. The help and encouragement of others can help boost our confidence no end.
Increasing your confidence as a creative writer is sometimes the only route to helping you unlock your creative writing potential.
These are just 5 of the best ways you can do this.
To discover even more ways to unlock your creative writing potential, get your FREE 5 part creative writing ecourse at http://www.YouAreACreativeWriter.Com.
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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Friday, September 4, 2009
Creative Writing - Are You Born A Creative Writer Or Can It Be Learnt?
Is creative writing something we can learn and develop?
Or are we simply stuck with a fixed amount of creative writing talent we’re born with?
Why do some people seem to find it easy to write pages and pages of wonderful flowing creative writing?
While others gaze on eternally frustrated that they will never be able to reach such heights of creativity and productivity?
For many of us, even if we DO manage to overcome our creative blocks in terms of the AMOUNT we write, we feel constantly disappointed with the quality of our creative writing output.
We feel we could write forever at this average-anyone-off-the-street-coulda-written-this kind of standard.
But really we long for that next elusive level.
We’re desperate for that creative writing breakthrough - that poem, that story, that single sentence – that blows us away and makes us feel we’re a powerful creative force to be reckoned with after all.
So how do we get there? How do we experience this creative epiphany?
Well, we can’t summon it up magically just like that. But there’s plenty we CAN do to make it easier for our creative writing talent to evolve to new levels.
Here are two simple ways:
1. Work on your beliefs about your creative writing ability.
If you don’t believe deep down you’re capable of writing creatively then you simply never will achieve the wonderful levels of creative writing you’re actually capable of.
Have a check in with your beliefs about your creativity.
Ask yourself honestly: How creative do I really believe I am?
If the answer is less than an emphatic - “there are no limits to my creativity, I’m as creative as I want to be!” - then it’s time to take a look at some of the ways you can increase your creative self-belief.
Start by simply listing all the things you think someone with strong self-belief thinks about themselves. The same things you’d need to think if you were to be highly creative.
Then read them out loud to yourself, as if you believe them yourself.
2. Gather evidence of your creative ability.
The second simple way to make it easier for your creativity to flourish is to gather together all the evidence of how very creative you are.
Get together all the creative writing you’ve done in the past. Everything: letters, notes, diaries, journals, as well as what you might consider your “proper” creative writing. There’s bound to be more than you think.
Another little exercise to do is take a random object from around where you’re sitting. Maybe it’s a pen or a book or a cushion.
Now pick an emotion. It could be sad, excited, overjoyed, frustrated, or any other emotion.
Imagine you’re someone for whom this object summons up that emotion very strongly. Write a couple of sentences why this is so, the history behind it.
Now you have further evidence of your creative writing ability. From just one object and one emotion you were able to create a story, and the background to a character.
Our creative writing ability is something we can ALL develop.
Start building up yours today by using these two simple techniques.
Want to find out how more about how to unlock the creative writer in you? Get your FREE 5 part creative writing ecourse at http://www.YouAreACreativeWriter.Com
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
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Dan_Goodwin
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Or are we simply stuck with a fixed amount of creative writing talent we’re born with?
Why do some people seem to find it easy to write pages and pages of wonderful flowing creative writing?
While others gaze on eternally frustrated that they will never be able to reach such heights of creativity and productivity?
For many of us, even if we DO manage to overcome our creative blocks in terms of the AMOUNT we write, we feel constantly disappointed with the quality of our creative writing output.
We feel we could write forever at this average-anyone-off-the-street-coulda-written-this kind of standard.
But really we long for that next elusive level.
We’re desperate for that creative writing breakthrough - that poem, that story, that single sentence – that blows us away and makes us feel we’re a powerful creative force to be reckoned with after all.
So how do we get there? How do we experience this creative epiphany?
Well, we can’t summon it up magically just like that. But there’s plenty we CAN do to make it easier for our creative writing talent to evolve to new levels.
Here are two simple ways:
1. Work on your beliefs about your creative writing ability.
If you don’t believe deep down you’re capable of writing creatively then you simply never will achieve the wonderful levels of creative writing you’re actually capable of.
Have a check in with your beliefs about your creativity.
Ask yourself honestly: How creative do I really believe I am?
If the answer is less than an emphatic - “there are no limits to my creativity, I’m as creative as I want to be!” - then it’s time to take a look at some of the ways you can increase your creative self-belief.
Start by simply listing all the things you think someone with strong self-belief thinks about themselves. The same things you’d need to think if you were to be highly creative.
Then read them out loud to yourself, as if you believe them yourself.
2. Gather evidence of your creative ability.
The second simple way to make it easier for your creativity to flourish is to gather together all the evidence of how very creative you are.
Get together all the creative writing you’ve done in the past. Everything: letters, notes, diaries, journals, as well as what you might consider your “proper” creative writing. There’s bound to be more than you think.
Another little exercise to do is take a random object from around where you’re sitting. Maybe it’s a pen or a book or a cushion.
Now pick an emotion. It could be sad, excited, overjoyed, frustrated, or any other emotion.
Imagine you’re someone for whom this object summons up that emotion very strongly. Write a couple of sentences why this is so, the history behind it.
Now you have further evidence of your creative writing ability. From just one object and one emotion you were able to create a story, and the background to a character.
Our creative writing ability is something we can ALL develop.
Start building up yours today by using these two simple techniques.
Want to find out how more about how to unlock the creative writer in you? Get your FREE 5 part creative writing ecourse at http://www.YouAreACreativeWriter.Com
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
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Dan_Goodwin
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How to Hone Your Creative Writing Skills
The best tip for new creative writers is to practice creative writing. While creative writing talent is the paramount ingredient in your writing success, you also need basic skills, basic tools and knowledge of standard writing techniques. These can be learned and honed through online or classroom training, reading, and practicing. Feedback and constructive criticism by experienced creative writing professionals is extremely helpful as well.
Reading and observing are handy learning tools when you're honing your creative writing skills. A routine is essential as well. Writing when the mood strikes you may be the stuff of dreams and movies, but it's not reality for those who want to succeed in creative writing.
Great creative writing is about a strong grasp of the language, and an even better story. While creative writing is generally fiction its basis does not need to be factual and accurate. A very old cliché, but very true one, is to write about what you know. We can expand that a little to say that you must write about what you know or what you have learned about.
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Successful creative writers spend much time researching and studying the places, the ideas, and the products and materials they will present in their creative writing before they even write one page of the story.
Creative writing has seven different components: plot, setting, characters, dialogue, theme, style and point of view.
A creative writing plot happens when you organize the events that you are going to include in your story. The setting is the physical place and time in which your story will occur. The characters are the people in your story, although it could be animals as well. Dialogue simply means the conversation between the characters. Theme is the meaning behind your creative writing - its main idea - while style is the way you use the language to convey your theme.
Your point of view can be first or third person.
First person point of view makes you, the creative writer, the storyteller - i.e. - this is what happened to me. This format of creative writing can be limiting as the story is defined by what you would be able to know and observe. You could not delve into the thoughts of other persons or talk about things that occurred when you were not present. Third person would let you delve more objectively into the story.
Peter Morgan is the CEO of "JV Members Ltd" - a new article writing and publishing business - which enables anyone, to make money at home - and it won't cost them a penny! Click Creative Writing and Publishing to find out more and claim your Free Membership.
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The Easy Way to Write
Reading and observing are handy learning tools when you're honing your creative writing skills. A routine is essential as well. Writing when the mood strikes you may be the stuff of dreams and movies, but it's not reality for those who want to succeed in creative writing.
Great creative writing is about a strong grasp of the language, and an even better story. While creative writing is generally fiction its basis does not need to be factual and accurate. A very old cliché, but very true one, is to write about what you know. We can expand that a little to say that you must write about what you know or what you have learned about.
The Easy Way to Write
Successful creative writers spend much time researching and studying the places, the ideas, and the products and materials they will present in their creative writing before they even write one page of the story.
Creative writing has seven different components: plot, setting, characters, dialogue, theme, style and point of view.
A creative writing plot happens when you organize the events that you are going to include in your story. The setting is the physical place and time in which your story will occur. The characters are the people in your story, although it could be animals as well. Dialogue simply means the conversation between the characters. Theme is the meaning behind your creative writing - its main idea - while style is the way you use the language to convey your theme.
Your point of view can be first or third person.
First person point of view makes you, the creative writer, the storyteller - i.e. - this is what happened to me. This format of creative writing can be limiting as the story is defined by what you would be able to know and observe. You could not delve into the thoughts of other persons or talk about things that occurred when you were not present. Third person would let you delve more objectively into the story.
Peter Morgan is the CEO of "JV Members Ltd" - a new article writing and publishing business - which enables anyone, to make money at home - and it won't cost them a penny! Click Creative Writing and Publishing to find out more and claim your Free Membership.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Peter_Morgan
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