How to Get Inspired to Write
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Need to be inspired to write? Adopt a few of these practices to keep your mind actively searching for new inspiration.
Steps
- Carry a small notebook or tape recorder for sudden inspirations. Record your thoughts into more formal written work at a later time.
- Rest in an atmosphere of quiet or surround yourself with noise. Sit in a forest or stand on a busy street corner.
- Listen to a variety of music, such as jazz or folk music.
- See a movie and write a review based on the setting in time or an elicited emotion.
- Read a variety of literature and write a report of comparison.
- Write about a craft, such as pottery. Focus on its history or a particular aspect.
- Search the internet for a topic. To be a writer, you must love to read.
- Reference old material. Reread your first-grade story that describes how you lost a mitten.
- Freewrite. Choose a subject and write continuously for a set period of time; while disregarding spelling, punctuation or grammar.
- Expand a topic in several different directions; similar to adding different ingredients to a recipe.
- Create several solutions to a problem. Write three pages that focus on two solutions.
- Write convincing pros and cons about the same subject, such as a boyfriend.
- Play a game to stimulate your mind with strategy.
- Choose a word and quickly associate it with another. Example: yellow may lead to sunflower, then to summer, then to winter, then to snow, then to a day off from school, etc.
- Write in a journal. Focus on events or emotions throughout the day.
- Record an event or adventure in your life. Reflect upon your insights.
- Record emotion. Write with descriptive detail of anger, compassion or grief.
- Create a world of fantasy.
- Write about a passion in your life such as gardening or your children.
- Utilize writing as a means to escape.
- Write about a cause that is of interest, such as global warming.
- Record several aspects of a story on small pieces of paper. Mix them together. Choose a setting, characters and plot.
- Create a rough draft and return to it in a few days to allow for other ideas to surface.
- Sit and observe. Observe people without judgement, attempting to look into their past for character development.
- Listen to conversations for an idea. Imagine what occurred prior to overhearing a conversation or what will occur thereafter.
- Imagine a story about someone’s life based upon their appearance, attitude or the book they are reading.
- Describe a person’s actions while riding a bicycle or preparing a meal.
- Create a series of conversations between two characters. Conversation creates a story that is more realistic.
- Write descriptive detail about a main character, focusing on their thoughts that have been influenced by past experience.
- Write a description about an object, such as a family heirloom.
- Remain open-minded. Give yourself a set period of time to devote to a subject before considering a new idea.
- Walk in a park. Your mind may be more creative and free to associate in times of leisure or while occupied with other activities.
Tips
Review brainstorming techniques.
Warnings
. Repetitive writing or typing may lead to a stress injury.
- Plagiarism is illegal. Always credit sources.
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