It’s a frosty day here in Galway. As the frost takes us towards Christmas and the end of the year I have started thinking about last New Years resolution. Judging by my success at carrying out last year’s resolution I doubt it. Last year I resolved to declutter my office. I had a loose plan […]
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Writing From The Heart
Do you feel self-conscious about your writing? Do you worry what people will think of you? You are not alone. I have always worried about revealing too much of my personal history or emotions in my writing and to be honest I still do sometimes. WRITE LIKE NO ONE’S GOING TO READ IT. But, what […]
Writing Activities – Boost Your Creativity
WHAT IS OBSERVATIONAL WALKING? Writing activities aren’t just things you do indoors in front of your computer. There are other ways to improve your creativity and productivity and not all of them involve sitting down. In fact, if you spend a lot of time sitting then you will probably feel a lot better in many ways […]
HOW TO BE CREATIVE
MYTHS ABOUT CREATIVITY We all have ideas about what makes you creative and some of these ideas are myths. I am going to talk about three of these myths. MYTH 1 YOU CAN TELL A CREATIVE PERSON BY LOOKING AT THEM. This is simply not true – you can be as conservative or controversial as you […]
Journal Writing
Are you thinking about keeping a journal – or struggling with deciding how to go about it? There are many books about creative journal writing out there. The approaches vary wildly. Some advice is quite rigid with rules hurled at the reader from every page. Some writers believe that writing down their free-flowing thoughts each morning […]
HOW TO USE YOUR IMAGINATION
Everybody has imagination. If you disagree with this statement – try not to build a picture in your mind of a pink elephant wearing a white hat and cool shades. EXERCISE YOUR IMAGINATION Think back to your earliest childhood memory. Was the sun shining? Were you in your pram? In the garden? Were there butterflies? […]
CREATIVE WRITING ACTIVITIES
CREATIVE WRITING ACTIVITIES OPEN YOUR MIND The creative writing activities I am going to talk about here are more general than the specific creative writing activities described in the other sections. These activities are designed to open the mind and maybe even change your mind – creatively of course. CREATIVE WRITING ACTIVITIES – SELECTIVE READING […]