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Creativity Sundays: That Good Morning Creativity

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That Good Morning Creativity

 

For the next week, you should keep a notebook, sketchbook, or journal by your bed. As soon as you wake up in the morning you should put something in it. Spend at least five minutes writing or sketching your thoughts. The more time you can spend the better.

Do your best to let your inner editor sleep and allow your creativity to flow freely.

Don’t get hung up on working on any specific project. Do what comes to your mind in that particular moment. Clear your mind onto the page if necessary.

Remember not to worry about edits. This is about quantity, not quality. If you get something really good going still continue to let you inner editor chill until you pursue it.

 

At the end of the week look back and think about how this exercise has helped your creativity. Is it something that you want to continue doing?

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 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 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 22/30 – Earth Day

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It’s Earth Day! Get creative and be eco-friendly while you do it.

Express your feelings about the earth and the eco-friendly movement.

How are you being more environmentally friendly with and in your creativity?

Spring Into Creativity 20/30 – Naturally High

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What gives you a natural high?

 

Spring Into Creativity 19/30 – Let’s hangout

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What is your ideal hangout? Paint a picture (with words, melody, or images).