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 […]
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What Are Writing Prompts?
Writing prompts are words and phrases that serve to trigger your imagination and help you form new ideas. For example: The body was still warm. I bet an image of a body appeared in your mind. Did you wonder about the body? Maybe you began to concoct a story around the image? Well, that’s how […]
BUCKET LIST
TO WRITE OR NOT TO WRITE We’re all familiar with the film ‘The Bucket List’ (2007) with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman starring as two terminally ill cancer patients who decide to break free from their limited hospital existence. They run away and do all the things they wished they’d done before they became ill. […]
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 […]
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 […]
GOOGLE’S HUMMINGBIRD FOR WRITERS
GOOGLE’S HUMMING BIRD – FOR WRITERS I am really enjoying the whole process of building my websites. Everything about it is creative and challenging. I have now built up two other sites for children: www.coolkidsstories.com & www.ballyyahoo.com And, because I love gardening and wanted to track my progress, I also started a little blog about […]