How to Put Creative Energy into Your Writing

When we write, we practise communication. Our work doesn’t have to be a work of staggering genius, but it should awaken that dormant feeling of narrative and story in the reader. It’s a two way experience.

Sean P. Durham
3 min readSep 25, 2021

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I implement the creative process in all of my activities. Creativity becomes a powerful motivator in daily life.

When I’m tired I still write, I know it’ll work for me because I trust in the creative energy, and I know it will rise to the occasion, once again.

The Problem of sitting down to Write.

Getting our backside into the writer’s seat is a problem for many of us. To get started on doing something that we profess to love doing, seems to be an enormous problem half the time.

It occurred to me one day, that the real problem of sitting in the writer’s chair, a swivelling white thing in my case, is that it’s a moment when we make a strong commitment to doing something that is always hard.

Writers are creators. They make something out of nothing. Writers have to make up lies to entertain people, they also have to be very good at avoiding the lies and getting the facts right. That’s…

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Sean P. Durham
Sean P. Durham

Written by Sean P. Durham

Berlin Notes — Creative Writing about art, Life & cats. https://seandurham.eu

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