Inspiring Words Creativity Prompts: Day 16

Use these three words to inspire your creation today. Write a story, poem, essay, section of a novel, or song. Paint or draw a picture. Use your camera to capture the words in a unique way.

I have used the Oxford Dictionary website to pick unique words & phobias. Feel free to think outside of the box with these definitions.

Just simply create!

eucatastrophe: a happy ending to a story

hypegiaphobia: fear of responsibility

puissant: powerful or influential

Inspiring Words Creativity Prompts: Day 15

Use these three words to inspire your creation today. Write a story, poem, essay, section of a novel, or song. Paint or draw a picture. Use your camera to capture the words in a unique way.

I have used the Oxford Dictionary website to pick unique words & phobias. Feel free to think outside of the box with these definitions.

Just simply create!

rawky: foggy, damp, and cold

thassophobia: fear of idleness

temerarious: rash or reckless

Inspiring Words Creativity Prompts: Day 5

Use these three words to inspire you creation today. Write a story, poem, essay, section of a novel, or song. Paint or draw a picture. Use your camera to capture the words in a unique way.

I have used the Oxford Dictionary website to pick unique words & phobias. Feel free to think outside of the box with these definitions.

Just simply create!

bibliopole: a person who buys and sells books, especially rare ones

gynophobia: fear of women

firmament: the sky

Inspiring Words Creativity Prompts: Day 4

Use these three words to inspire you creation today. Write a story, poem, essay, section of a novel, or song. Paint or draw a picture. Use your camera to capture the words in a unique way.

I have used the Oxford Dictionary website to pick unique words & phobias. Feel free to think outside of the box with these definitions.

Just simply create!

zoolatry: the worship of animals

asthenophobia: fear of weakness

repine: be discontented

Spring Into Creativity 13/30 – Focus on Words

No matter how you get creative focus on words. Create something with the emphasis on a word of a series of words.

 

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.

April Creativity Prompt 8 of 30

List your favorite words, at least five of them. Now come up with five other ways to say each word. Use those words… all of them.