Category Archives for Creativity
6 Ways to Fight Creative Blocks and Generate Ideas for Blog Content
Sometimes it comes on like a brick wall. You’re doing your thing, creating content, and then suddenly it all just stops moving forward.
There are a lot of reasons. It can be emotional, with some aspect of your personal life overwhelming your enthusiasm and your creativity. It can be physical, with high stress levels and an overly demanding workload taking their toll. And sometimes it can be entirely random.
Maybe you’ve got all the pieces in place, but it just isn’t working.
In moments like this, you need some help. You need some way to get the idea generation machine running again. As writers, we’ve all had to figure out the right tricks to get past that brick wall.
Moving Past Your Self-Critical Voice: A Case for Stream-of-Consciousness Journaling
Can I ask you something?
When was the last time you had a fight with yourself?
Maybe it was yesterday morning, when you were sitting at your desk with your laptop open and it took you 45 minutes just to draft an email. Maybe it was two days ago, when you met a new person and walked away shaking your head, thinking, How could I have said that?
The Science Behind a Writer’s Mind
Shelves of half-formed story ideas, baskets of lovely and uncommon words, filing cabinets filled with grammar rules. … If the mind of a writer was a physical place, chances are these things would feature pretty heavily.
But, as we may forget, the mind is a physical place—our brain.
Our brains contain our thoughts, ideas, emotions, personalities—basically everything that makes us, well, us. Including the parts that make us writers.
There’s just something about the mind of a writer that allows for the flow of new ideas and creative turns of phrase that don’t come naturally to everyone.
So, what is it?
I’m not the only one to have asked that question—it has fascinated scientists for decades. Join me as I take a look at a few studies that tell us what it is about the mind of the writer that makes it so unique.
4 Unconventional Ways to Find Writing Inspiration
If you love to write, then you understand the struggle to constantly find inspiration that will take you to greater heights.
When you Google the phrase “writing inspiration,” you will be bombarded with all manner of links on quotes, helpful aids, ideas, and case studies that will help you find inspiration as a writer.
I work as a full-time professional freelance writer. More often than not, I have to come up with my own ideas – from scratch. In all honesty, that is the worst part of my job.
Because of the sheer volume of articles that I tend to handle on a monthly basis, there comes a time when my brain just goes on strike. When that happens, everything comes to a screeching halt. No longer will ideas flow in my head. Even with subjects I write about on a regular basis, I get nothing.
Zilch.