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Hello June! No Fear Creativity Challenge

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Hello June

 

In the month of June make a daily effort to face your creative fears. Challenge yourself to step outside of your comfort zone and try new things. Take your creativity in a direction that you may have thought was out of your reach.

Why?

Because sometimes you don’t know how long your arms are until you try to reach for something you thought was too far away.

Take some risks. Write that memoir. Write the essay that has been on your mind for a long time. Write the poems you have been afraid to write. Try a different art medium. Take the pictures you have dreamed of taking. Try a new art form. Challenge yourself to journal, draw, or blog every day. Write the lyrics that you haven’t written for fear no one would get it. Start that novel that you’ve always wanted to write and work on it every day. Create a character that challenges and even scares you.

Don’t let fear keep you in your comfort zone.

No one has to see what you are working on but you. You are accountable to yourself. Prove to yourself that fear is not going to stop you from taking your creativity to the next level.

Ready…

Set…

CREATE!

What are your writing fears? Preparing for the June Writing Challenge.

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We are coming up on another month with 30 days in it.

What a great time to create a new writing habit and complete a new challenge.

 

In preparing for next month, begin to think about what you are afraid of when it comes to your writing. What subjects are you afraid of addressing? What forms are you afraid of writing in? Where are you afraid to take your characters?

Begin to compile a list of these things.

Starting June 1st, you are going to tackle them. Write the story, poem, or article you are afraid to write. Put pen to paper and get down huge sections of the memoir that has been haunting you. Tackle forms and genres that you have found difficult.

June will be when you face your writing fears.


Get prepared now.

Spring Into Creativity 30/30 – Be honest

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Be honest about your creativity, where it is going, and where you want it to go. Express it in your art.

Spring Into Creativity 29/30 – Make A Wish

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Make a wish!

Express it through your creativity!

No fear allowed! Be as high in the clouds as possible!

Spring Into Creativity 28/30 – Creating from another creation

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Read a poem, preferably one you have never read before, and create something from how it makes you feel and the images it brings to your mind.

Spring Into Creativity 27/30 – Tell a story

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Use your creativity to tell a story. Try to use more than one form (expression) of creativity when telling that story.

You don’t have to be a prose writer to tell a story. (Don’t box yourself in by thinking that way.)

Be as non-traditional as possible.

Spring Into Creativity 26/30 – Rebuilding

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How would you rebuild yourself or your life? What are the building blocks? Get creative!

Spring Into Creativity 25/30 – The Telephone

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Love it or hate it, create an ode to the telephone in the format that best suits you.

 

Spring Into Creativity 24/30 – Arbor Day Creativity

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It is Arbor Day! Hug a tree and get inspired. Look at some trees and get inspired. If you can, go plant a tree and get inspired. Create from that inspiration.

 

Spring Into Creativity 21/30 – Memory Meditation

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Meditate on a positive childhood memory and then create what comes from that meditation. Try to focus on both feelings and imagery.