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Creativity, Work, and Writing Inspiration
A writer must be a creative person. So what’s that mean? We deal in words, we create ideas and share them with readers. But there’s also the magic of inspiration.
That’s hard. It takes years of practice and understanding to know how to use words, build sentences, and develop a small idea into a bigger one — all out of thin air.
But while we sit and practice, our work is often interesting enough to share with readers. So, don’t put the brakes on too quickly.
Creative ideas come from somewhere. When you possess a mind that is inquisitive, and curious about the world around you, you can’t help but have new ideas. So build a habit of taking these ideas seriously. Coax them into life, write them down, that’s the work of a writer.
Experiment, and find out if it works for you.
Creative minds embrace phantasy, they see the possibilities in everyday situations. To speculate and tell yourself stories as you encounter these situations. This allows inspiration to rise up and suggest strong creative ideas. This can happen anytime, walking, shopping, sitting and talking with friends, it happens when you are interested in everyday life.
Writing is hard, but it’s great fun. When you get your bag of tricks together, to a certain extent, then you can feel the ideas roll into each other, and you know that a story is emerging.
You’re a creative person, and arty type person, so you take an interest in everything around you. In my opinion, that’s healthy, a really healthy way to live a life; the mind gets a chance to expand, just fresh new books full of ideas, full of knowledge.
Books that opened doors to the past, others that speculate about the future, and the ones that talk of the present tend to be as speculative as the texts about future possibilities.
It’s difficult to put your finger on the present, it’s slippery.
That’s what makes being a creative person so exciting. You can investigate something and feel the magical pressure rising as you do. The possibilities to develop your own ideas about a subject, a topic that everybody seems…
