Elementary Writing

Coming up with new creative writing ideas from the thin air is difficult and time consuming.

Good news is that there are techniques and online resources you can use right now to produce as many ideas as you will need. Here are some of the best and some of the easiest.

Creative Writing Ideas - Where they usually come from?

Do you see the book ?

Let’s first look at the traditional setup that teaches us of the inspiration coming from:

• Other people observation
• Newspapers and Magazines
• World out there
• Your bookshelf or a local library
• Your personal experiences

The problem is though, finding those ideas, it can be as much hard work as siting at the desk writing.

If you just sit down in front of your computer, and it’s just a blank page, you’ve got no idea what to write or where the story goes next, you don’t think that anything is going to happen, then the good news is that the little piece of hardware you are sitting in front of can actually be your precious source of fresh inspiration and creative writing ideas. You just need to know where to look.

How to Make Inspiration specific Search Engine Survey

This sledge hammer technique rests on two most powerful forces in the known universe:

• Internet Search Engines
• Your desire for indulgence

And this is how it works: You need to make a list of the keywords and phrases that best match the answers to the following questions:

• What is Your life wish list ?
• What do you best understand ?
• What is most important to you ?
• How do you feel now ?

Once you make the list, you can perform your own custom search to Google, Yahoo, Live or Ask search engines, than narrow it to the resources listed bellow. You will be surprised with the results and how they neatly follow the pattern of your anticipation and aspiration.

Online Resources for Creative Writing Ideas

• Online Newspapers and Magazines
  Most of the popular magazines and newspapers today are present Online. Searching for them is easy process, here is just a god starting repository for your search.

  * World Newspapers  - directory
  * Metagrid - Magazines search engine
  * FreeByte - News Agregator

  Many magazines will have RSS feed for subscription. You may subscribe to their topic specific feeds using your feed reader.

• Social Media Sites
  There are two types of social media sites that you should explore to find articles related to your preferences.

  The social bookmarking sites like delicious and furl where users save their bookmarks and tag them. If lots of users save an URL, the site or page becomes popular.

  News popularity sites like digg and mixx. Check out these sites and subscribe to the appropriate categories and tags that are related to your topics. Also, search for “Top List of Social Media sites” using Google.

  Nice easy way to get fresh creative writing ideas and have fun at the same time is to install StumbleUpon toolbar, small browser plug-in. By utilizing the power of Social Networks with each pressing to Stumble button, it serves you a new website that is most of what the online community is buzzing about at the moment. Nice way to stay tuned as well.

• Google Alerts
  Once you have a list of keywords, go to Google Alerts and create a Google alerts based on those keywords. Google will send you the latest relevant Google results based on those keywords. You can choose to receive the alert email once a day. You can also opt to receive alerts on topics published only in blogs and news.

• Meme Trackers
  Meme trackers are about creating something memorable. These sites study linking behavior to find the most talked-about news. That is exactly why they may be the excellent source of fresh ideas for writers.You may find list of meme trackers and more information about this service at Memetracker Wikipedia page.

  Be cautious though,  as the number of articles from these meme tracker sites may overwhelm your RSS reader because each day these sites track hundreds of posts. So, you need to organize all these feeds in a single folder of your RSS reader. Scan the titles quickly and flag the post you are interested in.

Make Literature Online - Free Writing Ideas Factory

If you wish an instant access to quality creative writing ideas resource, this is a good place to go. Make Literature Online Collaborative Writing Community provides an extensive catalog of fresh creative writing ideas contributed under the open Creative Commons License by the community members.

If you find one, few or many ideas here, intriguing enough and inspiring for your future writings, you are free to pick them up and use freely withing the specific terms of CC License. This is a precious shortcut to overcoming writer’s block that you may go back to whenever you  need it.

Bottom Line - Start Writing Now »

It’s better to write anything, and do it right now. English writer Graham Green attributes much of his success to a simple habit: He forced himself to write at least 500 words daily, whether he felt like it or not. Perhaps creative inspiration can strike at any time, but it strikes more often when there is work instead of waiting. Use the advices from this article, than start writing and you’ll have more creative writing ideas.

Do you see the book ?

The literature graveyard is crammed with great artistic achievements that failed because the advertising didn’t elicit that all-important desire to consume HERE AND NOW.

The single biggest problem with many courses offline and on the web today is their focus on gimmicks and tricks for creating self-publishing prospects, as opposed to proven principles.

In this article series we introduce five core tenets of promotional, writer marketing that will carry you to your first substantial advantage over 95% of other perspective writers that didn’t adopt these genuine doctrines.

You may ask what makes this 5% different. You don’t have to understand the biology or chemistry that goes on… but you DO have to realize that like with closing any sales deal, self promotion requires a little skill.

It’s not difficult.  But it’s not something most people naturally learn to do.  So, without further ado, let’s dive in to discover our first great secret of successful Writer Marketing ;

Practice Superior Salesmanship

It’s simple, and it’s basic:  Your number one weapon in advertising and writer marketing, especially on-line, will always be superior salesmanship. Few key secrets to salesmanship:

1. Keep it simple, stupid:

Indeed, the holly grail of any salesmanship is sublimated in three simple declarations first formulated by the guru of promotional marketing Mr. John Curlton:

• This is what I’ve got.
• This is what it will do for you.
• This is what I wish you to do next.

The power or these three deceptively simple components of the selling system that works every single time like a charm, originate deep in the common psychology of people.  It makes them bring the decision for themselves (explicit determination) rather than being solicited by you.

Think about it: If what you have got is good and something that you are confident in sharing with the rest of the world, there is really no need for messing around. You give people a cool staff they want to use. Based on the cool staff that you give them, they decide for themselves that they want to do business with you. End voila:

“Hey, Let’s see what outrageous story he’s got to tell me today!”

2. What I’ve got is damn hot:

Are you confident in relevancy and appealing of your writing work? (script, novel draft, short stories collection, an article, …whatever it should be)

To make it interesting fore everyone else, you have to deliver your  message in a way that nails its “passionate sweet spot of need”.

In salesmanship terminology, you have to make USP (unique sales proposition), as it is exactly what drives your customer’s mind when he thinks about you. If you have something that sets you apart, tell the world, and put some teeth into the way you say it. That is the essence of your USP.

You should be able to explain, in a single phrase, why a prospect should deal with you and not the other guy… or why he needs what you offer at all.

Make your addressing not only a pitching session, but informative and insightful ass well. Aim to be abreast of your industry as you are bringing something fresh, that ought to change established readers concepts.

You want your prospect (agent, publisher, audience…) to say after experiencing your promotional pitch:

“Wow!  How do I get one of those?”.

3. Accept the success:

If you’re not comfortable around the idea that you deserve to be recognized, even famous, it’s because you’re dealing with an idea that is foreign to your conditioned nature.

This is the point in your life that you make ultimate decision to extend beyond your physical boundaries – to increase your service to a larger audience in need of your talent. And, in so doing, riches invariably came their way.

These should be common sense for all writers dealing with the promotion of their portfolios… and yet it will be your secret weapon.  Because most of your competition will forever ignore the fundamentals of good salesmanship, or screw it up ,since they’ve never bothered to pay attention to the promotional lessons in their writer marketing or self-publishing agenda.

Make the Low of Attraction Works for You

In the next sequel of this series, we will discuss the second secret of successful writer marketing:

How to be the writer beyond the Ordinary.

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