Tag: ideas
1. What has brought me joy lately? Counting your blessings – aka reflecting on the good things – can help combat the few negatives to drown out many…
For me, creative writing starts either with an idea that has to be crafted right now, or the slow build-up to a mature enough idea that I can…
An oxymoron is when two apparently contradictory or opposite words are used together to express a complex truth. Parting is such sweet sorrow Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet It…
Most of us, when we write, focus on who is doing or saying. Here is something new to try – telling a purely visual story. Bonus points if…
Using dreams for story ideas is a technique employed by many writers. Dreams are our minds at their most creative. Authors have often taken inspiration from dreams. I…
Pick the first six items you see on your desk, in your writing space, or in your room. Make them vital to the plot.
While some of us have more ideas than we know what to do with (something I sometimes suffer from) others (also like me) have to work at getting…