Creative Writing Ideas- 3 Steps To Finding An Endless Source Of New Ideas For Your Creative Writing

There’s a saying that a painter is only as great as his last painting, or a band are only as good as their last record... Maybe it follows then that a creative writer is only as good as their last great creative writing idea?

But what if you’re really struggling for new ideas for your writing?

What if you don’t feel you’ve had an interesting idea for months, even years? Where’s the best place to find them?!

Well, unfortunately there aren’t any drive through fast idea stores where you can pick up a few juicy new ideas in a couple of minutes without leaving the comfort of your own vehicle.

But there’s actually a better way to approach this dilemma.

There’s a way to tap into all the great ideas you’ll ever need for your creative writing.

Here then is your 3 steps to endless ideas heaven:

Step 1. Put in your “Ideas Are Everywhere” eyes. If you take on the mentality and outlook that “Ideas Are Everywhere”, you’ll soon find they come flooding more quickly that you can catch them.

If you expect not to have ideas, you won’t. If you expect to find new ideas, to be inspired by the tiny details you see, hear, feel, taste and smell all around you, everywhere you go, then you will. It’s really that simple.

So put on your “Ideas Are Everywhere” eyes (and other sensory organs!) and get out there and experience the ideas that are ready and waiting to be discovered.

Step 2. Capture your ideas when they occur. Having plenty of ideas is just the start. How many times has a great idea popped into your head and you’ve thought “Wow, I like that, I’ll write about that later”, only to forget it moments later?

Learn to capture your ideas so you can return to them and develop them at a future date. The easiest way to do this is to carry a notebook with you at all times. As soon as a spark of an idea appears, jot it down as fully and as vividly as you can in your notebook.

You’ll find too this actually helps you with Step 1. The more you start noting down your ideas, the more you train yourself to look for others.

Step 3. Write from your best ideas. So by now you’ll have a collection of interesting ideas in your notebook. What to do with them?

A common mistake is to go to the earliest idea in your book and try to write something more around that, just because it’s the first in the queue. Just because it’s first, doesn’t means it’s the best.

Always scan through your ideas and pick the first one that catches your eye and your imagination, whether it’s one you wrote down 5 years ago or 5 minutes ago. You’ll always have more ideas than you can develop, so go with the natural energy and excitement of those that really leap out and beg to be developed into something more.

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Creativity Coach and keen creative writer Dan Goodwin helps people who are frustrated they're not making the best of their unique creative abilities. See more at his website: http://www.CoachCreative.com