Do some rules in writing exist?
Of course, there are some grammar and spelling rules that you need to follow unless you are planning to become famous because of your illiteracy, but when we are talking about the idea generation and creativity, no rules are applied. Modern writing is more than just creating love novels that end with characters living happily ever after.
Today, you can easily kill the main character just in the first chapters of your book, you can totally ignore to love story in your novel, and you can even never write novels or stories but remain to be a writer. The world is open to experiments, and you should never lose a chance to use your creativity in writing and hone your writing skills.
In this article, we are going to cover 10 tips that will help you make your writing more creative and will help you become one of those writers who enjoy what they do.
1. Always note what people around you are talking about
If you frequently have the problem of losing your creative inspiration, you need to know the best ways of how to restore it. We have noticed that many writers admit that listening to other people works perfectly for them. The fact of the matter is that people's behavior is full of unexpected moments and if you know how to notice them, you'll discover ways to integrate some of the funny things people say and do into your writing and storytelling. Of course, it is better to note what people are talking about as you may just forget the exact phrase and later blame yourself for that.
2. Write for free, write for yourself
If you do not have clients, that does not mean that you should forget about writing. The writing process needs to be nurtured, and if you want to stay creative, you need to write all the time. Thus, you will turn writing into a habit, and you will never feel that you have no strength to write something. Besides, on-going writing will help you to determine your own writing style and find the way how to handle challenges that appear when you don’t know how to express certain ideas.
3. Use mind maps
4. Play with rhymes
One of the most effective ways to keep creative with writing is never to stop improvising and trying out new writing techniques. Perhaps, one of the best of them is playing with rhymes. You may just start to write verses or you may try to find the rhymes to the words and word combinations that you’ve written to your novel or story. It would be more fun not to take this seriously and try to make some really funny rhymes.
5. Write as long as possible
If you have ever thought that a good writing is a short writing, we bet that to write in long sentences and long paragraphs will be a real challenge for you. However, this challenge will help you to reveal some of your hidden talents and maybe even to unleash your new potential for writing long form content.
6. Write as short as possible
It does not matter what length of articles or blog posts you have always preferred, you just need to give short writing a try. Make your story as short as possible, reducing the number of sentences, and later even reducing the number of words. Maybe, you will be able to write a story just in 6 words as some of the famous writers have already done?
7. Add more details
To become more creative with your writing, you need to know the power of details. When you are creating some content, just add as many details as possible and later choose the ones that seem the strongest to you. Perhaps, you will notice that your original ideas have nothing to do with strengthening your writing and you should have chosen something else, something, that you’ve added to your details list.
8. Ask people for advice
If you have no idea how you would behave in a certain situation, stop wasting your time — ask people to help you with that. They will definitely share their own experience with you, and you will be able to use truthful facts in your writing. Moreover, their words may give you some inspiration to modify your article in a different way to make it more realistic and interesting.
9. Grow your competence
To never lose your creativity, you need to know where to find the inspiration and ideas for writing. The more you know, the bigger field for searching those ideas you have. Thus, you need to grow your competence and expertise in different fields to be able to use your knowledge in idea generation and therefore introducing them to the your written words.
10. Don't be too critical of yourself
Creativity comes together with being critical of yourself. You should always understand when your creativity leads you too far and when the creativity is not enough to create a strong story. Thus, use your inner critic to make the proper decision and to give yourself proper assessment of the job done. However, don't take this too far. Remember that you need to experiment from time to time and see how it goes!
I hope that you loved these 10 tips for creative writing that will help you hone your writing skill. Do not forget to use them and practice to check how they work for you and to see how they bring you closer to your dream of becoming a world-famous writer.
Hey Jake,
Sometimes, it’s hard to keep the creative side of the writing. People need to understand the concept of user experience.
Writing for yourself can also bring you more pleasure and a practice to embrace your skills. Many people go on and on which can bore their readers.
Keeping the content short yet interesting is always something I would suggest.
Thanks for sharing with us.
~Ravi
Hey Jake!
Great tips for better creative thinking man!
I like writing myself. I’m not sure if I would ever write books like that but I do have good creativity.
And I do come across a few hurdles from time to time. It happens. But as you mentioned here, you have to keep writing and you have to keep active with your writing no matter what.
I think practicing your writing skills and experimenting consistently is one of the most important things you can do to expand your creativity.
Thanks for sharing these tips Jake! super valuable for everyone looking to become a great writer!
Cheers! 🙂
Recently my creative writing mojo left me and I’m working to get it it back. I wrote in my journal; read books on various topics; and brainstormed ideas on things I’d do if money weren’t an issue. I also watched funny stuff to listen to the content and delivery of funny lines.
Hi Ms. Ileane and Jake,
Thanks for sharing these writing tips with us. I had no writing skills whatsoever when I started blogging. I mean, I had basic skills like putting a sentence together with the right grammar and spelling. I just hadn’t discovered my writing style yet. 🙂
I had never thought about using mind mapping before. Now that I think about it I have some notes for blog posts on my smartphone’s notepad. Thanks for that idea.
I have to work on #10. I am my worst critic. 🙂
Thanks again for these great techniques!
I hope you both have a great day and weekend.
Cori
I’m a better writer when relaxed, so I love to take my time most times. I always make google search my closest pal…
Well thank you… I’ve grown to understand the importance of Google search and I don’t under estimate its uses… I take my time to research before writing…
Hello Jake,
Nice to see you here on Ileane’s site 🙂
Indeed writing should be one of the toughest jobs, they require creativity and a lot of skills to
be done in perfect manner.
Writing for my self really helps, as it carve out the skills we had, shows us the mistakes that
we need to work upon. Discovering our writing style could be a very handy job, means one
need to put the sentences and the grammar properly, so that it doesn’t look bad enough and
attract the readers to make us write more and more.
Using of phrases do really help, it keeps some karizma in the content so that readers fells
that joy while going through our content.
Thanks for coming up with these amazing tips.
Have a great week ahead.
Shantanu.
Hi Jake,
These are some great tips for anyone who is just starting blogging or wants to improve on their skills.
When I first started writing, I really had no clue what I was doing. While I still have a lot of improvement to make, my writing is slowly getting better.
I’ve made it a point to write at least 1,000 words each and everyday. My method consists of writing my blog posts on a site I have setup on localhost.
I’ll then either use that article for my own blog or guest posting. This method seems to work and has helped me improve my writing.
Although, I still need to focus and improving my storytelling in my writing. I know that people love stories and I am not that good at using them in my stories.
It’ll eventually come with practice.
Thanks for sharing these tips, I’ll be sure to refer back to this post before I write my next blog post.
Have a great day 🙂
Susan
Bloggers and internet marketers are silent rockstars because we’re just as big as U.S. politicians! 🙂
Hey Jake,
Adding related information in natural way increase user reading experience and also we can ask people to give us suggestion what they know about the topic or share their experience.
Good read.
Hi Jake,
My writing skills are not so good but m trying hard to make it better and above article gave me a good idea about writing, thanx its very useful article and helped me a lot.
I would love to applaud you Ms. Ileane; you nailed down the best tips anyone will surely need. I really appreciate your well written guides.
I am working on a “Buyer’s Guide” type site and information provided by you on this page will definitely help me.
Thanks for sharing such a great tips on creative writing useful in every scenario.
Found your post interesting to read. I cant wait to see your post soon. Good Luck for the upcoming update.This article is really very interesting and effective.
Mind Mapping always worked for me.
Thanks for other writing tips Jake. I knew most of them…but some are reminding me to go back to the basics.
Thanks.
Well, these points may vary from situation to situation. Basically, I am a blogger and working since years in Kamil web solutions FZE a Dubai-based company, and it does not suit me to have short articles, why? because google prefer the long content as well as the quality content. Long content does not mean you lose your path and include unnecessary content, no, stick to your purpose of the article but explain it briefly, Explain all the pros and cons and different situation a user might have to face. So if you are a blogger you can not afford to have short articles.
Nice article.
But I have read some article where some people are saying that Google loves long article.So, I think If we are writing in online then long articles are gonna loved by Google.
Thanks for this wonderful Post:).
I am an also content writter but I am new this profession. your tips help to improve my skill.
Hey Jake,
Good post.
Mind maps is something I;ve done from the very moment I started blogging back in 2011. That stuff really does work. If I ever get to the point that I’ll write a book, I’ll definitrely be using mind-maps for the whole thing.
Point #7 is something that I love because the attention is all in the detail. People can’t always assume what you mean so you need to make sure there’s no wiggle room in what message you’re trying to convey.
Great stuff.
– Andrew
I agree with Tip #10! Perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness and playfulness and life force.”
Hey Jake,
Thanks a lot for sharing such an informative article. I think better user experience and effective writing both are co-related.
Hey Jake,
Thanks for sharing these writing tips with us.my writing skills is not good, I must be use your tips now.
Thanks for a great post and deep dive on a subject that’s becoming a personal favorite for me. Now I constantly work for quality content.Tips you mentioned for enhancing creativity while writing are valuable,it’s a good way to nurture leads and gather all the potential customers you can get and have them hooked because of the content you publish.
Hello Jake,
I think writing is a world, it’s another space where there is no boundary. It comes from heart. We can always differentiate whether it written with heart or mind. I am very passionate about writing but I am not perfect. I try to read as much as possible, not to gain information but to learn different ways of expression. I try to experiment all these things in my blog articles…
Hey Jake,
I liked every thing that you wrote in the article, but I felt that you should have included the way a writing be presented.
I see it quite normal that an article is badly presented even though the information provided in it is at par, but there is no proper spacing at all.
If you feel so include that bit too.
Apart from that, I enjoyed reading the article.
Thanks !
This article is beneficial and is working as an eye opener for the new writers and whoever wants to succeed in writing. Once you develop these skills it will definitely take you to a next level of writing.