How Creativity Can Reduce Stress

During these challenging times, we're all looking for ways to maintain our spiritual, emotional, and physical well-being. Did you know that exercising your creative muscle can help?

How Creativity Can Reduce Stress

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Wacky Creativity

This link will take you to a Pinterest board full of unusual images. Your challenge:

Allow one of the images to inspire a poem or short story and then write it.

"Where do you get your ideas?"

I get this question more than any other. Here are some great authors (Stephen King, John Irving, Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst) answering it. 

Where they get their ideas. 

It's Time to Make Writing Fun!

When I facilitate writing workshops, I tell participants to treat writing like a job. Show up every day, and do your work.

Sometimes, though, we need a break. We need to refresh and keep the work and enthusiasm about writing burning.

Here are 7 ways to do that. Which way speaks to you?

Make Writing Fun

Harnessing Creativty

Want to keep your mind sharp and your ideas fresh? Try these techniques:

How to Be Creative

Overcome Writer's Block

Just when I thought I'd heard all the suggestions on how to overcome writer's block, I stumble on to this Overcome Writer's Block

Beat Writer's Block

Tired of staring at the blank page? Try these weird techniques to get you writing again.

Get Out of Writer's Block