Top 10 Tips to Complete a Creative Writing
Project Without Losing Your Creativity
BY GINGER BLANCHETTE
Have you ever started a creative
writing project with great excitement, only to have your interest
dwindle as the process, itself, interfere with your creativity? How do
you keep the momentum going and continue to enjoy the creative process?
Follow these tips for high creativity, fun and success!
1. Create a writing environment that inspires
you.
Create a place in your home or outdoors
that calls you to write. Consider light, color, sound, scent, taste,
writing materials.
I highly recommend this book. It keeps
you focused, observant, playful, and creative - and it keeps you
believing in yourself as a writer!
3. Choose your writing project in a joyful way.
When choosing a writing project, come
from your heart - not your head. Be playful. Be creative about how you
choose your project.
4. Make a creative representation of the
project’s ideal end.
Draw, paint - use a creative medium
other than writing to represent the completed project. Consider,
especially, how you will feel when it’s done. Put your model in a
prominent place. Use this to trigger the desired feeling, before the
completion - every day!
5. Make a timeline with celebration points.
Make it visually appealing. Have a
step-by-step outline and celebrate creatively as you complete each step.
6. Create an R&D Team for your project.
Contact a number of your friends,
colleagues, and readers. Invite them to join your R&D Team. Send them
snippets of what you write, questions you have about the process, or
anything else you want input on - on a regular basis. Their input will
keep you going.
7. Keep Creating & Editing times separate.
If you edit while you write, the
process can become boring. Clearly block a specific amount of time for
editing into your schedule. Don’t let it interfere with your creative
writing time!
8. If blocked, shake things up!
Do something fun, unusual, active! Get
your mind somewhere else and move your body. Your creative side will
work in your subconscious while you’re at play. Read the tips in
The Artist’s Way. There are also many resources on the Internet
for handling writers’ block. Check some of these links:
9. Have a Fan Club.
Critics and editors are fine, but have
a few friends or family members who you can ask to cheer you on or cheer
you up, no matter what you write. Hire a Creativity Coach to keep you
focused and to be an unbiased supporter of your creative success!
10. Celebrate in a big way!
When you reach the big finish, give it
a big finish! Do something you’ve always wanted to do, but have never
done before. Make the finish so memorable that you’ll be eager to begin
your next creative writing project!
Ginger Blanchette is a life and
business coach who supports her clients to share their creativity. She
works with professionals and business people who are ready to complete
big projects involving writing and/or public speaking and to be
recognized for what they do! Contact her at
www.lanterncoach.com for a free sample coaching session.
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