Creative writing articles
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Tapping into your super creative power
- Do you consider yourself creative? How about super creative? Most people may not think of themselves as creative, but I believe that everyone has the potential for great creativity. They just need a little understanding and practice.Think of two parts of the mind: the conscious, and the subconscious. The conscious is the part that thinks. It's the part that you are aware of. The subconsciou...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 9 steps to supercharge your productivity with creativity
- Time is the great equalizer. Everybody has the exact same number of hours in each day. For most people, the hours available are usually less than the hours needed to get everything done. However, by using the following principles of creativity, you should be able get more done in less time, while making certain that you are doing what's most important and moving yourself closer to your goals....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Dare to dream
- Have you ever thought of this? When you were young and at school the teachers always reprimanded the dreamers - "You live on another planet", "You've got your head full of silly notions!" and the like.Then we are in the playground. The boys say, "I'm gonna jump over that garbage can" and the other boys say, "Nah, you're not good enough, you can't do that."You back up and run your har...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A quick course in creativity
- This quick course in creativity is designed to give you a platform to stand on as we look at the various ways you can handle home, social and workplace situations, job-search details and career-path decisions. Let's examine what creativity might look like.Here are some of the ways in which creativity expresses itself. Perhaps the creative idea is one that mixes and matches items or ideas th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Five basic steps to benefit from your creativity
- The ability to exercise your creativity is even more important for you than you probably think. Why? First, your creativity tremendously contributes to your self-actualization, which is essential for you to feel satisfied with your life and be happy. Second, it is exceedingly important for being successful in building relationships and earning money.Taking creative approach contributes to y...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Three ways journaling can boost your creativity and your business
- I have a friend who has struggled with her creativity for a long time. She's extremely uncomfortable thinking of herself as "creative." We've been working together on it, and making progress. One of the tools that's really helped her has been journaling.From Julia Cameron's The Artist Way to Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones to Linda Trichter Metcalf, Ph.D. and Tobin Simon, Ph.D.'s ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to increase creativity... set deadlines!
- Deadlines are something all of us face from time to time. We face deadlines whenever we set even a small goal and commit to accomplish it... that's when deadlines becomes important and valuable to us.Why is a deadline so important?... Without one... many of our projects would, be put off, or eliminated completely. The closer we get to a deadline the more our thoughts, ideas, imagination and...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Rejuvenate & re-fuel your inner drive
- I believe that as solo-entrepreneurs, business owners, and executives we all need a pat on the back. Give yourself commendation. Why? Because we have the courage to step outside of the corporate box and start our own businesses, be our own boss and take on the challenge and responsibilities required for this adventure. In order to even contemplate that step we must have had a vision, a dream and a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 3 clever creative strategies!
- I've got a confession to make... there are many ways leaders can be more creative, innovative and ingenious than are presented in this article.It does not matter if you desire to be a marketing, entrepreneurial or organizational leader, you do have to use your creativity to be successful.Most leaders have trouble discovering new opportunities, generating good ideas and promoting inno...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Riches through creative thinking!
- When solving problems after you have exhausted the normal means of coming up with the solution, think in terms of unorthodox methods. Vary your thinking and try to solve the problems by creating something completely new and irrelevant. Come into the problem through the "back door". Research and curiosity go hand in hand in solving the toughest problems. Quite often the answer is so simple, ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Creativity and you
- 95 percent of what we know about the brain, we have learned in the last 20 years. So, your beliefs about creativity were probably shaped by faulty information.For instance, many believe that only special, talented people are creative ? and you have to be born that way.Wrong.The notion that geniuses such as Shakespeare, Picasso and Mozart were `gifted' is a myth, according to a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Top ten ways to jump-start your creativity
- 1 - Take A Tour of the Great Outdoors Consider a hike in the mountains, a stroll beside the river, a run along the beach, a jog through the park or a walk around the city.2 - Soak Up Your Surroundings like a New Sponge Open your mind to the unknown and grasp the little details often overlooked in every day life.3 - Read, Read, Read Read anything that interests you... Regardles...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Break an egg for creativity
- In 1420, the dignitaries of Florence held a competition.They offered the enormous prize of 200 gold florins to the architect whose genius could span the unfinished dome of the Florence Cathedral.This was a great challenge. Even the original builders of the cathedral in 1296 left writings hoping that God would offer a solution because they did not have one.Filippo Brunelleschi ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 20 ways to keep your writing inspiration and creativity high
- When stressed or blocked it is wise to make a change so thatwe don't stay in that place. Yet, many times we forget someof the simple things that we can do for ourselves, quicklyand easily to bring our inspiration back and increase ourcreativity. 1. If you usually type your first drafts, hand write them.Nothing compares to the feeling the ink melting into thepaper and...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Unlock your creative secret weapon
- It seems like this week a ton of people have been asking me how they can become more creative. I even had one client jokingly accuse me of being in cahoots with the Devil in trade for my creativity. "Where do you get all of your ideas?" he asked. Well, I have decided to share my secret with you in this issue.In the following paragraphs you will learn my creativity secret weapon. I use it al...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 12 ways to boost your creativity at work
- As workplaces continue to rightsize and downsize, we all find ourselves doing more with less. How do we stay ahead of the workload while staying sane? The key is to put your creativity to work for you so you can do more with less and shine like never before. Just what is creativity? It is the ability to make, produce, cause to exist or bring into being; the ability to make something out of...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Telling it like it is (or can be)
- When you hear, "tell me a story," does your mind suddenly go blank? Don't panic. The good news is, you're already a natural storyteller! Surprised? You shouldn't be. It's built right into our genetic code. Human beings are a storytelling species. Of all the creatures on Earth, we're the only ones that share past memories and future dreams as a way to get to know others, build friendships, plan an ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 7 techniques to supercharge your creativity and solve your problems
- Do you ever encounter problems, challenges or obstacles in your business? If you answered 'no,' then you can stop reading and continue to rake in the fortune you must be making. For the rest of us, the answer of course is 'yes.' For the most troubling problems, the biggest challenge is in your inability to come up with new and innovative solutions. This is because when you try to solve a pr...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why do we need creativity?
- Creativity is central to the management of our individual lives, but in modern times few people are able to access this as a resource. Alan Watts writes in The Wisdom of Insecurity:"We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives out of all proportion to 'instinctual wisdom'; which we are allowing to slump into atrophy. As a consequence we are at war within ourselves - the ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Find the artist within
- Can anyone be an artist? People admiring my work often say, "I could never do that!" I say, "Yes, you can!" Eight years ago, during a very difficult time in my career in finance (Downsizings, layoffs ? let's not talk about it, OK?), my company sent me to a development workshop for female executives. I came out of a particularly thought-provoking discussi...
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- 2007-03-29 17:20:24 - Writing short info reports
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People want information, they want it quick, frequently in short form, and straight to the point. Its no wonder that they go straight for a computer connected to the internet to find anything from how to grow tomatoes to choosing a web host.
As a home business owner, this "information revolution" as I like to call it, is only to your benefit. After all, you are in th...
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- 2007-03-29 17:20:24 - Writing nonfiction
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All of us are authors, and all of us have a book already written within us that needs to come out.
I believe that fiction is the easiest to write because none of what you write can, or needs to be verified and you are only limited by your imagination. On the other hand nonfiction requires verification of facts and the book usually has references to the material that ...
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- 2007-03-29 17:20:24 - What can go into a plot?
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Creative Writing Tips ?
We all tackle plotting differently. How you plot will be individual to you, as it is with every writer.
Below is an outline of what can go into a plot. How much you choose to develop each point is entirely up to you.
So some basic questions to ask are.
1. Briefly what your story is about
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- 2007-03-29 17:20:24 - The three "questions" of science fiction
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There is a great deal of misunderstanding about what that particular branch of literature called ?Science Fiction? actually consists of. Is it space-ships and monsters? Time machines? Galactic empires? Well, its all of those things, and often none of them.
Science Fiction, broadly speaking, is story-telling that deals with the impact of organized knowledge on human b...
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- 2007-03-29 17:20:24 - The "casablanca" secret
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Good writing is often designed around a character who has a distorted vision of himself or of the world. During the story, he is placed under sufficient pressure to force an epiphany, a moment of clarity in which, he sees the world as it is, not as he wished it to be.
A classic example is ?Casablanca,? where Bogart's immortal Rick has managed to create an insular wor...
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- 2007-03-29 17:20:24 - Steps to a writing an effective press releases
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Want to get the most media attention and spotlight for your business? Then the first place to start is with a GREAT press release. Now I can almost see half of you leaving now, dreading the thought of having to write one of these. But wait!! I'm going to show you easy methods to make your press release work for you and get the attention it deserves. Ready? Let's go.
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- 2007-03-29 17:20:24 - It was good enough for shakespeare!
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One of the core conflicts for creative artists of all kinds is the tug-of-war between art and commerce. Frankly, an artist needs to make money, and it is preferable to make it from his craft.
A writer who must work a full-time job to support himself will struggle to find the time to work, and often eventually gives it up altogether. On the other hand, being able to w...
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- 2007-03-29 17:20:24 - Is the theme running throughout the story?
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Creative Writing Tips ?
It's no use coming up with a theme and not using it. Short stories are about a character or characters and about one situation or happening in those characters' lives.
By concentrating on that one thing, our stories are focused. You will need to focus to maintain a level of intensity and sticking to the theme enables us to do th...
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- 2007-03-29 17:20:24 - Is the theme reinforced in the ending?
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Creative Writing Tips ?
By now you should have an idea that your theme has to reach its conclusion just as your story does. But our theme has to do more than reach its conclusion ? it has to be reinforced in the end and by doing this, it will strengthen all that we have said in our story.
So if we took a theme.
'Persist and in the end yo...
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- 2007-03-29 17:20:24 - If the viewpoint character is a secondary character, have you established who he is?
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Creative Writing Tips ?
I have said above that if a secondary character tells the story of the main character, then the spotlight should be kept on the main character.
This shouldn't be taken to the extreme though.
In other words, you don't just write the story of the main character without telling your readers a bit about your secondary...
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