Be Interested: Be Creative
Are you sick of sitting in front of a blank computer screen, waiting for inspiration to hit? Want some fresh ideas, and to tap into a greater level of creativity than you’ve reached before? Want to get those creative juices flowing?
If the answer is a resounding yes to all these questions, read on!
One of the best things you can do when looking for artistic inspiration in your writing is to delve into the depths of your personal experience and write about what you know. However, no one author can have the time to personally experience everything in the world. That’s why good writers will seek to broaden their horizons by developing interest in many different things and people.
No two individuals have exactly the same experiences, thoughts, feelings and ideas, which means that the study of people is endlessly fascinating. Whenever you engage in conservation with another human being, you are opening your mind to receiving new ideas and sharing in their experiences. This means you have a greater depth of knowledge available to you when you need to write.
Develop relationships with as many different people as you can to open your mind to new ideas leading to increased inspiration. You can even use online chat groups and writers’ forums to get to know other writers overseas, and gain international perspectives on the creative process that drives authors to write creatively.
Whenever you meet someone new show more interest in them than in talking about yourself. Strive to encourage your new acquaintance to share their ideas and experiences with yourself by asking questions and leading to dynamic conversation. Don’t just limit yourself to chatting about the weather. Allow yourself to discover the wonder of the individual in front of you and what experience defines them as a person by being interested in them.
Don’t just sit there and stress about a mental blank, start talking online or get out and about and relate to people to free your mind and start the creative juices flowing again.
If you are struggling for inspiration and are missing your creative genius, try visiting a local café and watch the people in the street passing by. Listen to conversations and allow your mind to wander as it processes ideas that are generating by being interested in what is going on around you.
I’ve watched the barista pour the coffee, and started to think about how strange it is that we have people trained just to make coffee in our specialised, industrial world and suddenly I found that inspiration had struck and my writing was back on track after my coffee.
Be observant and notice the little details in how people relate to each other and their environment around them. Sometimes just sitting on a crowded bus or train and watching others will generate new ideas and creative thoughts. Start dreaming about where they are going, who they will meet, and what they will do, and suddenly your mind is open to your creative muse.
New ideas will help your creative muse, and new ideas come from meeting, discussing, and relating with other people.
Become fascinated by the endless experience of different people and your creativity will certainly increase.
Develop your sense of curiosity and start to think about the objects around you. Thinking about who made them, why and how will encourage thoughts to start to flow again in your mind.
Be interested in people around you, people you can contact through the wonder of the world wide web, and the variety of things and man-made objects around you.
Allow your mind to tap into creativity by developing your sense of curiosity about everything and everyone you meet and your creative writing will be amazingly different.
Well as you may have noticed, I’ve been writing three posts on each topic and this has been the third one for I=Interested not interesting. I hope you have found some ideas to help you stay creative and fresh in your writing.
Next time I’ll be looking at the letter T in HABITS. T is about time and until then…
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This is a good idea; other people’s stories are often a great source of inspiration. The only thing to watch out for is that the socializing doesn’t replace the creative time!