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Creativity Sundays: Try something new
This week, take some time to try a different creative outlet. Try to pick something that you don’t normally do. Flex your skills in a different arena. There are a ton of ways to be creative. Whatever you pick make sure that you give it your all and enjoy it.
Expand your creative mind!
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Creativity Sundays – Get creative with how you get creative.
So you have fallen behind on those resolutions or plans you had for the new year. Perhaps your creativity challenge is a day late (a little like this post). Or maybe you are a couple days of your “everyday” challenges.
Don’t worry. Today is a new day. Start over.
Don’t be afraid to alter your challenge. Instead of saying you are going to write or draw or compose everyday, try saying that you will simply create everyday. Make a conscious effort to be creative everyday. Or look at why you have fallen off and adjust accordingly.
Don’t be so hard on yourself. It will stifle your creativity.
So today, if you are bogged down by your usual forms of creativity, try something new. Step completely outside of your box. Do things a little differently.
Get creative with how you get creative!
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Creativity Sundays: Expand your vocabulary!!!
No matter what you method of being creative, it is always very important to expand your vocabulary. You can never know too many words.
Granted, as a writer, it is possible to use too many complicated words when simple ones will do. However, you still should know the complicated ones and what they mean.
Wordplay is fun. Creating art based on a new word is fun.
Here are some words you may or may not know. Attempt to use a few of the ones you aren’t familiar with in your next creative project or add them in to a current project.
officious
impassive
monstrosity
sanguine
conspicuous
toothsome
fervent
fruition
nuance
segue
treacherous
rampage
sumptuous
seamy
neurosis
leaven
culpable
zany
coddle
lacerate
goblet
brusque
menagerie
fractious
eccentric
braggadocio
heresy
glean
uncivilized
sensationalism
placate
recompense
hazy
insinuate
Want to find new words on your own?
- Get a dictionary app or follow one on social media. Most post words of the day.
- Open a dictionary to a random page and pick out a word you don’t know.
- Take words you do know and look them up in the thesaurus for alternatives you may not have thought of.
- Learn a new language.
- Keep your eyes and your ears open.
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Creativity Sundays – Unload Your Brain
This week try to unload the creativity from your brain.
Before you go to bed write for fifteen minutes. Unload all the your thoughts onto the page. Write. Sketch. Plan. Nothing needs to make sense. You could map out ideas for a project or you can write a few pages of a project.
Once you wake up you should do the same thing. Unload the first things on your mind. Throw them on the page. Write about a dream. Sketch an image that came to your mind. Write all of the things that come to your mind. Take fifteen minutes and get it all down.
At the end of the week, go over what you have. Try not to do it until a full week has gone by. Give the thoughts and ideas some space to breathe. There may be some jewels hiding there.
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Creativity Sundays – What is Creativity?
What is creativity?
What does it mean to you?
When I think of creativity I think of:
- it is characterized by originality
- innovation
- setting prototypes
- it is primal
- imaginative
- unique
- inventive
- authentic
- revolutionary
- instinctive
I don’t think there is one definition that works for everyone.
Begin your process by exploring your creativity.
What does creativity mean to you? How do you express it?
Highlight all the ways you exercise your creativity.
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Repurposing an old writing journal
Partially used journals plague many writers.
Those with OCD may not want to tear pages out.
Why not repurpose them? Cover pages with paint or gesso. You can make it an art journal or just decorate the covered pages and write in the rest of the book.
There is no need to trash it.
I chose not to worry about completely covering the words. But you can cover as much or as little as you want.
Give new life to a book before you think about trashing it!
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30 in 30: Day 30 – I hope you didn’t need a prompt to finish…
I hope you didn’t need a prompt to finish.
But if you do…
Write about accomplishing a goal. No matter how small it is, write about what it means to either you or your character.
Happy Writing!
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30 in 30: Day 29 – Embrace change
Change something about your project today. Change your character in some way. Alter their perception or change their mind about something important. Change your direction. Turn left when you were clearly supposed to go right. Change the way you write a poem. Pick today to rhyme. Change the way you approach an essay. If you typically do a lot of research, go off the top of your head today.
Embrace change today and have some fun with it!
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30 in 30: Day 28 – What is your background?
Write out the background for either yourself or one of your characters. It could be about you or the character personally, as in their history. Or it could be about genealogy and ancestry. Be sure to relate this to who you or your character is currently (present moment in the story). Make connections. See how it ties together. Insert the sense of discovery with it.
Have fun!
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