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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 5/30 – Go for broke!

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Okay. Take some time to let your creativity loose today. Don’t hold anything back. Remember, no one has to see it if you don’t want to share it.

Go for broke!

Stretch yourself!

Surprise yourself!

Take creative risks you normally wouldn’t take!

Spring into Creativity 3/30 – Where is your rainbow?

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Where would you go searching for a rainbow?

Why would you be looking for one in the first place?

What would be at the end of it?

Creativity Sundays – What is Creativity?

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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.

30 in 30: Day 29 – Embrace change

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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!

30 in 30: Day 28 – What is your background?

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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!

30 in 30: Day 27 – Insert your favorite dish

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Give something edible a staring role. Take the focus off of conflict, drama, or whatever else is going on in your writing and focus on the food.

Make sure to use all five senses.

Most of all, make sure to have fun writing!

30 in 30: Day 26 – Give Thanks

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Really simple… the topic is being thankful and grateful.

Work it in.

Work it out.

Have some fun!