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Creativity

Writing Tips: Stop Waiting for Your Muse and Get to Work

A while ago Elizabeth Gilbert—author of the runaway bestseller “Eat, Pray, Love”—gave a TED.com talk in which she describes how American poet Ruth Stone found inspiration for her poetry. Stone explained to Gilbert that growing up in rural Virginia, she would be working in the fields when, suddenly, she would hear a poem coming at [...]

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Be More Creative by Stealing, Re-conceptualizing, and Recombining Ideas That Already Exist

How many times have you heard the following: “There’s nothing new under the sun.” It turns out that this is true; sort of. If you think that creative people pull new ideas out of nothing, and that the definition of creativity is “being original”, you’re wrong. The most creative people steal ideas from different sources [...]

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Writing Tips: Overcoming Writer’s Block

Writers know that there are days when the ideas flow so fast, and so easily, that they can’t seem to get each idea down on paper fast enough before the next one starts clambering to be heard. And then there are days when the well of ideas unexpectedly dries up, and there’s just silence. Although [...]

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14 Ways to Nurture Creative Bursts

Maybe there’s a problem you’re trying to solve, a novel you’re trying to write, or you simply want to bring more creativity into your everyday life. If that’s the case, you’re in the right place. In this post you’ll discover 14 ways to nurture creative bursts: 1. Copy Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook habit. Michael Gelb [...]

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Writing Tips From a Master Thriller – Ken Follett

“What drives me on is a wish to entertain people.” – Ken Follett Ken Follett is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels who has sold more than 100 million copies of his works. Today he’s one of the world’s top grossing authors. However, he wrote ten books that did rather poorly before he [...]

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A Plethora of Writing Prompts for Creative Writing and Journaling

You already know that the best way to improve your writing is by reading, and by writing. Having a list of prompts that you can pull from every day in order to help you practice your craft, even if it’s just for ten minutes a day, can be very helpful. In addition, sometimes creative writing [...]

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20 Ways to Make Time to Write

Would you like to start a blog? Do you want to participate in NaNoWriMo next month? Do you dream of becoming the next J.K. Rowling? Have you been trying to write an ebook for a while, to no avail? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, but you keep telling yourself that you [...]

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Do It the Other Way Around – TRIZ Principle for Solving Problems

TRIZ (or the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving)—which I introduced in this blog post–is a toolbox of techniques for solving problems and generating ideas. It was created in the 1950s by a Soviet naval patent clerk named Genrich Altschuller. Altschuller came up with 40 universal principles and argued that any problem can be solved by [...]

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