Ignite your Creativity

As a writer being creative is no doubt important to you. You look for innovative ways for characters to solve problems, create worlds for you characters to inhabit and use words to create just the right atmosphere. If you write non-fiction you will also be looking for innovative ways for your readers to solve problems and use words to inspire others.

When you are writing, planning your writing or editing your work you are being creative. It is, however, important to develop and practise your creativity in other ways to ensure this part of your mind remains healthy and keeps providing you with thoughts, ideas and nuggets of wisdom that enable you to be a productive and successful writer.

Here are some ways you can ignite your creativity:

• Take on a new challenge - learn something new or solve a problem. You might learn a new craft or do a crossword.
• Play – as we get older we often forget to play. This is about having fun; you could purchase some modelling clay and just mess around with it or you could kick a ball around with friends, anything that is not too serious, not too competitive and provides the opportunity to make it up as you go along.
• Make or create something – a meal, a painting, a hat.
• Rearrange a room, or a shelf, in your home – get creative with space and objects.
• Relax – give yourself some time to just lie back and allow your mind to wander, you never know what it might find.

Try new things, have fun, break the rules and ignite your creativity.

Happy writing.