When you’re low on writing inspiration or motivation, use these prompts, interviews and reflections to get in the creative flow again.
If you’re not sure where to start, poets should go here:
7 Poem Starters When You’re Feeling Uninspired
Short story writers should try this:
How to Come Up With Short Story Ideas, Every Day
And novelists — or others working on longer projects — might find this useful:
How to Start Writing Again After Falling in the Ditch
Now go off and be creative!
Need some inspiration? (Or maybe a kick in the pants?) Over at my favorite creative forum, deviantART, there’s a “100 Themes Challenge” going around. As the name suggests, you get a list of 100 themes (I like to think of them as points of departure) that you turn into 100 new creations. I think it was … Read more
Thanks to the WD Poetry Awards and the November PAD Chapbook Challenge, I’ve been writing a lot more poetry lately. And I’m rediscovering how much I’ve always loved it. I cannot explain poetry. That’s partially why I gave it up in the first place — I could never figure out how one could tell whether … Read more