A Short Guide to Finding A Creative Writing Idea
People would be astonished at the way my brain works. It’s even beyond describing as “an untypical woman’s brain”. I suspect I use all four quadrants equally; now add in biofeedback, intuition and memory and it truly starts getting interesting. I also have a gift for picking up details when looking at life, which might explain my abilities as a realism painter. Add in a small touch of A.D.D. and perhaps a tad too many unconventional thoughts and what you get is an overwhelming list of ideas and possibilities for exploring, tasting and sampling life. If ever there was a person with too many ideas and not enough time, it’s me.
I’m never stuck for an idea so let me share with you how to get one. Ready? Look to your right, what do you see? Okay, so it’s a white wall. Gee, that sounds boring, only it isn’t. It’s a possible essay on walking through walls and the bones that were once found in a monastery’s walls in south India during renovations; a new entrance to your computer space with a secret latch and wine storage unit; or, a blank canvas waiting for a beautiful and colorful image to appear. Look down to your left. What? It’s just the carpet? Oh, my! It’s a jungle in there if only you put a magnifying glass on it. Write about it for a 5 year old as if you were sitting around a campfire and wanted to scare the heck out of them. Go look out a window…it’s the opening of a short story just describing what it feels like to be inside looking out. And we haven’t even taken a walk outside.
A creative writing idea is what you make of the simple things in life. The most elaborate writing ideas are merely the simple ones dressed up in words.
Walk. Stop. Examine. Let your nose touch something.
Run. Stop. Close your eyes. Recall what you saw for the police.
Sit. Close your eyes. Smell. Pretend you’re blind and write.
Dream. Wave your magic wand. What did you make?
A creative writing idea awaits you right now… Will you take it?
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