GET BUSY WITH WRITING
a collection of 31 daily prompts to spark your inspiration and get creativity flowing
Would you like to get more inspiration for your writing? Have more confidence in your creativity? Or perhaps you would like to come up easier with new ideas?
If you are one of those people who have been putting off doing their creative projects and simply think they don't have enough time to write or be creative, than this the real thing for you. It's been designed to show you that you are creative and every word in this workbook is oriented towards empowering your inspiration and building fulfilling creative life. For each day in the month you have a prompt, an exercise or just few words to spark creative fire residing somewhere in you.
This interactive workbook, (or journal, guide whatever you want to call it) will ask you questions, provoke your thinking, initiate you to smell, touch, feel, see, it can make you laugh, cry, dream or even dance! But most importantly, it will help you have fun while writing and exploring creative soul that might be hiding beneath the burdens of everyday life.
It is not intended to be filled, written or read in any particular order – the way you decide to use it is the right way. Each prompt can be used in multiple ways: to write a story, poem, to use it for brainstorming new ideas or assessing your ongoing projects. Browse daily prompts and pick one you feel like doing that day. You can separately print them or use them in a consequent order. Most importantly, each day of the month you go on a new exploration of both your inner and outer world.
Among them you will also find inspirational quotes and poems to further spur your creative spirit and simply give you that wind in your writing wings we all need from time to time. In the electronic version of this piece you will find references to other interesting articles in the domain of creativity, writing and art to further enrich your journey towards achieving creative goals.
Keep in mind to do some preparations before embarking on your everyday creative journey:
Make time
One of the first key things to do is to make time for creative practice/exercise. In my own experience, whenever I feel constrained by time or my tight schedule – it’s simply additional pressure that kills every motivation for creative work. Your mind drifts away thinking about the errands and home chores you need to do … So it’s not going to work. Making time, being able to do things at your own pace is of vital importance. Having a problem here? The first prompt is designed to help you with your productivity.
De-stress
Once you make enough time, it’s very important to set the right “mood” in our mind, simply to get relaxed enough before thinking or brainstorming about new idea. Deep rhythmical breathing for a few minutes, visualization, light yoga or any type of meditation can do a wonder!
These steps allow us to be gentler with ourselves – meaning that we don’t push ourselves too much if work/idea development doesn’t go the way we want. It can bring additional emotional burden that doesn’t help and doesn’t serve us.