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Four Ways to Fill Your Creative Well

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Four Easy Ways to Boost Your Creativity

As creatives, there are struggles we have that others don’t see as problems. If your professional work is creative, people think it’s easy to “just” dream up ideas, “just” take pictures of stuff, or “just” paint, write, or draw all day. Inspiration for those wonderful ideas has to come from somewhere, and some days you’re tapped out. Here are four ways that help me stay creative that might help you too.

Fill yourself up with the work of other artists not in your genre.

If you’re a writer like me, soak up paintings. If you’re an illustrator, watch movie shorts made on iPhones, so on and so forth. Actively cross-pollinating between other expressions of art gives you larger stash to draw from when you need an idea. You never know when the wire sculpture you admired will come back to you in another form you can use in your own work. [Read more…]

My New Rules for Writing: A Somewhat Manifesto

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"Write like a motherfucker." One of my new rules for writing.

Photo Credit: The Rumpus (Buy a mug.)

So, I’m taking this blog in a new direction. Less stupid, filler stuff and more meaningful content. In an effort to keep this blog chock full o’ the good stuff, here are the new rules for writing:

1. Don’t be safe. Being safe isn’t being brave.

2. If it embarrasses you, write it. Write it because someone else can relate.

3. Edit until the manuscript bleeds. Use the sword. Stab it. Kill it. Burn the corpse. Then, allow the phoenix to rise from the ashes.

4. Don’t hide. Bare it on the page.

5. Feed yourself. Fill the well often, so you can empty it by filling others.

6. Go to the edge of the page–whatever that means at the moment you’re writing. Don’t over think it. Just do it. Your intuition will tell you how.

7. If all else fails, write. “Not like a girl. Not like a boy. Write like a motherfucker.“

 

These new rules for writing are gonna be fun.

 

 

 

Photo credit: TheRumpus.net

 

Do Something Creative Today! (With Suggestions)

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creative-ideas-to-do-at-work-today.jpegDo something CREATIVE today. Here are some ideas:

  • Write a rap verse–a hot sixteen.
  • Doodle on your meeting notes.
  • Make up a saga about the life of your coffee mug.
  • Hum a silly nursery rhyme.
  • Rearrange the push pins in your cube into shapes.
  • Imagine this: What if the copy machine was really a sleeping monster waiting to attack!?

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