Where do you get the inspiration for your creative writing? What do you do if you are having a writ?

Writing can be very therapeutic if you are prepared to open up and share your life experiences!

I have always been a visual person so if I am on a journey I look at what is happening around me. I also find things amusing - like other people saying odd things when they are waiting at the checkout... I play games with words.

Affects me sometimes but it is usually only if I am really upset about something real and important. The less time I have to write the more urgent it feels to write.

Pick an object within view, any ordinary object. When I had writer's block I chose a red building block and finished a very well liked poem about it.

Just write. Once you begin your creativity will start to flow.

There are so many ideas in real life, especially from stupid people. Start by reading a lot, and listening on other people conversations. Expand on that.

A story starts with a problem, make that problem something your readers cares about.

Writer's block is entirely in the mind :) I suggested some ways around it in an earlier hub.

Read a newspaper. Every story is a 'story' that can be developed. Journalists are creative writers.

That's why they cal their stuff 'stories'.

Creative writing, whether creative non-fiction, fiction, or poetry is a craft you have to work at. The more you write, the better you get. The more you read, the better you get.

Having a regular writing routine is imperative. Even if you spend the time you've blocked for writing sketching the basic nuances of a character or a rudimentary story outline or even a list of unrelated words that you like, you are writing. Writer's block comes to everyone and is best dealt with, I find, by not dwelling on it.

When it comes, I just brainstorm ideas whether they are related to a current project or not. This keeps me thinking and often inspires me. Good luck and keep reading and writing:).

Travelling or going to new places always gives me something to write about. If you're really stuck, try going to a museum or to another kind of public place. Or, think of a topic that interests you and do a little reserach on it.

You might dig up something to write about in what you find.

It comes from the minutia of life. A song on the radio might make me think of a character. Then, while cooking dinner or taking a shower the little spark of an idea grows and expands out into other characters, settings, plot ideas, etc.

Honestly, the only way to break through it is to sit down and force yourself to write. Do a few simply exercises without a specific goal in mind.It will come back.

Unless the block comes from burn out. Then I take a day or so off to do something else.

I enjoy mostly positive related experiences or encounters and I focus on that because that Is what I choose to remember. I always keep in mind if I have to talk about this topic verbally what or whom do I choose to discuss.

I take all of my problems in my real life and twist and turn them into into problems that my characters have. What helps me with writers block is not dismissing even the tiniest detail of what happens in everyday life, inspiration comes in the strangest forms.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.