Ideas to Help Your Creativity
by: Liane Schmidt
Looking for ways to expand your creativity? Looking for inspiration? Here are a few ideas:
1. Take a road trip. Beautiful scenery, sunsets, and time to reflect on your life and thoughts can relax and nourish the soul, allowing creative energy to flow easier.
2. For Writers/Poets: Writing exercises. Expand your writing ability by challenging yourself with writing exercises. For example, find a picture that interests you. Then write a short story about the picture, with a beginning, middle and end. This exercise teaches you that you can find things around you to help inspire your writing.
Or if you are a poet, write some poems with set parameters. For example, write a poem with the following structure:
First line: 2, 1, 2
Second line: 1, 3, 1
Etc.
The numbers indicate the number of syllables allowed for each word. An example of a poem that follows the above structure:
Tonight come, tonight
Touch waters, still.
You will be surprised what you can come up with!
3. Learn from others. Being exposed to other forms of art can definitely spark and refresh your creativity energy! Visit museums, watch indie live music performances, observe painters in action, and read and read and read!
January 12th, 2007 at 4:21 am
Used to write poems. My favorite poet in American literature has to be Whitman. He made the leaves of grass come alive.