Top 10 Tips to Complete a Creative Writing Project Without Losing Your Creativity
by:
Ginger Blanchette
Have you ever started a creative writing project with great excitement, only to have your interest decrease as the process, itself, interfere with your creativity? How do you support the momentum going and continue to enjoy the creative process? Follow these tips for high creativity, fun and success!
1. Create a writing environment that inspires you.
Create a place in your house or outdoors that calls you to write. Consider light, color, sound, scent, taste, writing materials.
2. Follow The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron.
I extremely
recommend this book. It keeps you focused, observant, playful, and creative - and it keeps you basic cognitive process
in yourself as a writer!
3. Choose your writing project in a joyful way.
When choosing a writing project, come from your heart - not your head. Be playful. Be creative just about how you choose your project.
4. Do a creative representation of the project’s ideal end.
Draw, paint - use a creative medium different than writing to represent the completed project. Consider, especially, how you wish feel once
it’s done. Put your model in a prominent place. Use this to trigger the desired feeling, before the completion - every day!
5. Do a timeline with celebration points.
Make it visually appealing. Have a step-by-step outline and celebrate creatively as you complete each step.
6. Create an R&D Team for your project.
Contact a number of your friends, colleagues, and readers. Invite them to join your R&D Team. Send them snippets of what you write, questions you have just about the process, or thing
else you want input on - on a regular basis. Their input wish support you going.
7. Support Creating & Piece of writing times separate.
If you edit patch you write, the process can become boring. Clearly block a specific figure of time for piece of writing into your schedule. Don’t let it interfere with your creative writing time!
8. If blocked, shake things up!
Do thing
fun, unusual, active! Get your mind somewhere else and come your body. Your creative side wish activity in your subconscious patch you’re at play. See the tips in The Artist’s Way. There are as well many a resources on the cyberspace for handling writers’ block. Check several of these links: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_block.html
http://www.sff.net/people/LisaRC/
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/block.html
9. Have a Fan Club.
Critics and editors are fine, but have a few friends or family members who you can ask to cheer you on or cheer you up, no matter what you write. Hire a Ability Coach to support you focused and to be an unbiased supporter of your creative success!
10. Celebrate in a big way!
When you reach the big finish, give it a big finish! Do thing
you’ve always wanted to do, but have ne'er
done before. Do the stop so unforgettable
that you’ll be eager to begin your next creative writing project!
About The Author
Ginger Blanchette is a Life and Business Coach who supports her clients to share their creativity. She works with professionals and business folk who are available to complete big projects involving writing and/or public speaking and to be recognized for what they do! Contact her at www.lanterncoach.com or by email to ginger@lanterncoach.com for a free sample employment session.
This article was denote
on March 22, 2004
