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Three Tips for Jump-Starting Your Creativity

Courtesy of Writer's Digest

Author Steven James provides several options for breathing new life into stale and predictable writing. Here are three of his tips for jump-starting your sagging creativity:

1.      CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVE

Creativity isn't seeing what no one else sees; it's seeing what anyone else would see -- if only they were looking. So, look at your story from another person's perspective. Switch your point of view. Think of how you would respond if you were in the story.

2.      LET SERENDIPITY HAPPEN

If you're stuck and drained of ideas, you might be trying too hard. You can't make happy chance discoveries until you step away and stop worrying. Relax. Break your routine. Work smarter, not harder.

3.      SET BOUNDARIES

Nothing stalls writing more effectively than lack of focus. Freedom to write anything usually ends up as an excuse for not writing anything. Skilled writers carefully fence in their ideas.

To learn more, check out the Writer's Digest.

"Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self-control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit."

--Madeleine L'Engle

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