creativity
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Ideas are like opinions, it seems like everybody has one. One of the most common arguments that I have heard recently when it comes to the use of genAI in writing (and why people argue it should be acceptable) is the idea that “oh well a real person had to come up with the idea…
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Over the course of the last few… days I’ve been feeling kind of uninspired and lacking in motovation. As I might have mentioned enough times on this blog that it’s beginning to feel like I’m bragging at this point, I’m certainly not lacking for ideas. As I wrote yesterday, I’ve been working on an outline…
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Over the course of my life I have had a great deal of friends who were writers like myself. We all have different styles of writing, different preferred genres, and crucially, different styles of how we planned (or in my case at the time, didn’t) our stories. One of my friends in particular in my…
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This might disappoint you to hear, but my first piece of advice actually has nothing to do with writing per se and everything to do with what you do before you start writing. Reading. Nearly every writer that you know would agree that reading is absolutely fundamental to becoming a writer. Now I’m not Stephen…
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It’s a feeling that sneaks up on you. A sensation that creeps upon you when you least expect it. Everything can be fine, normal even, and then it hits you. You’re trapped. Backed into a corner like an animal stuck in a cage. No escape. No way out. Nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide. Stuck…
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I have often felt that writing is the one thing that I would want to do if I could do nothing else in the entire world. A sort of, if you were trapped on a desert island and could only bring several things what would you bring scenario. Writing is what sustains me, it fuels…
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Why do you want to be a writer anyway? One of the foremost questions that I think is crucial to get clear on right off the bat is, why you want to be a writer in the first place. I’m not elitist enough to suggest that there is necessarily a right answer or a wrong…
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For most of my life, both in adolescence and as an adult, I tended to differentiate between the idea of myself as a writer versus an artist. While many have argued that writing is art, (and it is) I’ve always had a difficult time thinking of myself as an artist™. Intentional or not I’ve often…
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I have always been driven and ambitious. I’ve always known what I wanted to do with my life and what I wanted to accomplish. As such for a long time now rest has always been something of a vague concept for me. Perhaps it’s because I grew up with a single mother who I always…