Content

• Steps
• Part 1 of 4: Finding Inspiration in Your Daily Life
• Part 2 of 4: How to Stimulate Your Creativity
• Part 3 of 4: How to Find Inspiration in Books or Plots
• Part 4 of 4: Dealing with a Creative Crisis
• Warnings

Every author needs to find a new source of inspiration from time to time. Pay attention to everyday life, and get inspiration from books and stories. Feed your creativity with fresh ideas so you don't fall victim to the creative crisis. Any aspect of life can become your muse, so try different ways and create a new masterpiece!

Steps

Part 1 of 4: Finding Inspiration in Your Daily Life

1. 1 Always carry a notebook or voice recorder with you. It is advisable to always have a notebook or voice recorder with you, so as not to miss a moment of inspiration. Record thoughts on paper and record conversations overheard by chance.
   • Record conversations with interesting people, unusual conversations, and personal notes, and later analyze your notes.
   • Choose a simple or creatively decorated notebook to match your style.
   • Leave a few pages for quotes only.
   • Write down a variety of thought-provoking information or topics that interest you.
   • Keep a journal every day to hone your writing skills and find inspiration.
2. 2 Change the environment for a fresh experience. The new environment will spur imagination and become a source of ideas. Start small and change jobs or routes. Look at the world from a different angle to create new ideas.
   • Start working in a different room, go to your local coffee shop, or try writing in a park.
   • If you are using a computer, try changing your desktop wallpaper.
3. 3 Write about your observations. When inspiration is lacking, pay attention to the world around you. Choose an aspect of private or public life and start writing. Include details such as who, what, why, how, and when. Describe in full detail.
   • Write about what you see to immerse yourself in the moment and focus on the details.
   • Select an item in the room. For example, your grandfather's watch. Describe the watch's appearance, history and origins.
4. 4 Visit a crowded place and observe people. People are great sources of inspiration. They can always be found in a popular public place. Go to a crowded place, look for interesting characters and get inspiration. Describe the appearance of interesting people, their actions and words.
   • You can go to the airport, shopping mall or city park.
   • Observe unusual, unique people as well as the average inhabitants of your city. Anyone can inspire you.
5. 5 Listen to other people's conversations. Hearing snippets of conversation will be a wonderful spark of inspiration. Listen to other people's conversations in crowded places like restaurants or shopping malls, cinemas or markets. Write down interesting phrases to use in your next story.
   • For example, if a couple is having a fight, then use their lines in your own story.
   • If people are passionate about politics, write down the most interesting thoughts and phrases.

Part 2 of 4: How to Stimulate Your Creativity

1. 1 Use loose associations. This game will help you to let your imagination run wild and come up with new ideas. Open the dictionary, pick a random word and write down all the associations that come to your mind.
   • For example, pick the word “freedom” and write down your associations (birds, flight, or sky).
2. 2 Engage free letter. Free writing allows you to fill a page with words, regardless of the task or idea of ​​the text. Pick a topic, open notepad, and start writing. Don't think about the content and focus on the process. It will be enough to return to the text later to develop ideas or stay in good shape for working on new material.
   • Write declarative sentences or loose associations.
   • You can write over a period of time, or you can set yourself the task of writing several pages.
   • As an example, you can write about tigers. Write down any thoughts on the subject that come to your mind, including childhood memories from the zoo or your thoughts on the life of a tiger in the jungle. Perhaps later this material will help you write a new blog post or provide ideas for a new novel.
3. 3 Listen to music. Music helps you focus and think about new ideas. Play your favorite songs or discover a new genre of music (folk, classical or instrumental).
   • Use headphones to immerse yourself in music, or turn up the volume.
   • Sometimes the lack of pressure on the mind helps to think creatively.
4. 4 Use hints and sketches. Writing clues can help you focus when ideas are scarce. Pick an interesting topic, write down a hint, set a timer for 30 minutes, and try to develop the thought. After half an hour, re-read and edit the text.
   • Set the timer at any time convenient for you.
   • With the help of hints, you can write any text from a poem to an article.
   • Use hints like, "Best day of my life," or "What do you think of black?"
5. 5 Describe your hobbies and interests. Write about sports, painting, wildlife, travel, medicine, cars and people - any hobby will do. Describe fictional events or real life. A hobby is a great source of inspiration as you are already passionate about the topic.
   • In a fiction story, you can imagine yourself as your sports idol.
   • In the blog post, you can share your favorite recipes. List the ingredients, cooking times and temperatures, and why you like the dish.
   • In the documentary story, share your experiences of the hiking trip.
6. 6 Reflect on your memories or past events. This is a great way to find inspiration as it engages the thought process. Think back to your impressions or share your experiences.
   • Think back to the moment when you were very angry and almost lost it.
   • Tell us about a time you broke your arm in training.
7. 7 Use different storytellers such as animals or inanimate objects. You should not be limited to yourself and other people. Write on behalf of animals, insects, or objects. What are they thinking about? What do they feel, hear or say? Take a different approach for a new story.
   • Write the story from the perspective of a product like a stapler or a pushpin.
   • Try to see the world through the eyes of your dog or cat.

Part 3 of 4: How to Find Inspiration in Books or Plots

1. 1 Follow the news. If you can't come up with a story of your own, just open a newspaper or search the Internet for a topic that interests you. Find interesting headlines and read articles. Create a new story based on the article or reimagine the material to get a fresh idea.
   • Write answers to questions like, "Who was that person and why did he do this?" - or: "Why is this approach not applicable in our political system?"
   • Write your own perspective on events.
2. 2 Read books, blogs and magazines. Read other people's texts to find interesting topics and views on a familiar topic. Write a verse about what you have learned. New information is always a source of inspiration. Inspire with what other authors have inspired.
   • Read books by your favorite and unloved or completely unfamiliar authors.
   • Buy a magazine on topics that interest you and immerse yourself in reading.
   • Open the latest issue of a geographic publication and learn about new discoveries.
   • Read one of your favorite poems and take a fresh look at it.
   • Choose a book from your library. Flip through the pages to get an idea of ​​the central idea and characters. What thoughts came to your mind after a quick scan?
3. 3 Watch movies. Choose characters, dialogue and landscapes to build on. Use these elements in your own story or novel. Films often offer us interesting dialogue, fresh environments and characters.
   • Start watching the movie and note specific details. Is there an interesting character in the picture? Does camera work allow you to look differently at familiar things?
4. 4 Look at the pictures and write down your emotions. Watch artwork live or online and create detailed descriptions. List your thoughts and feelings. Turn your text into a story or poem.
   • Go to an art gallery or find famous paintings on the internet. Ponder over them. What do you feel? What emotions does the plot of the work evoke?
   • Describe other pieces of art to stimulate your creativity.
5. 5 Create "crossing out poetry" from printed text. Select a page from a newspaper, magazine or book and arm yourself with a black marker. Slide across the page and find words that grab your attention. Cross out unnecessary words with a marker to leave just a few words on the page that make up the poem.
   • You can cross out many or few words to create a short or long poem.
   • Sketch nouns, verbs, and adjectives, or use additional parts of speech to get coherent text.

Part 4 of 4: Dealing with a Creative Crisis

1. 1 Set deadlines. Sometimes inspiration is easier to find in stressful conditions. Set deadlines for yourself to feel responsible for the work. Striving to meet deadlines will definitely help you write!
   • Set a goal to write 1,000 words a day, one article a week, or one poem a day. Choose an appropriate and achievable goal.
2. 2 Exercise to increase blood flow and come up with new ideas. Exercise stimulates brain activity through good blood circulation, and the brain finds inspiration and new ideas. Take a break to exercise so that the subconscious mind makes new connections, and you have interesting thoughts.
   • Try running, swimming, cycling, or yoga. Play game sports like tennis and football.
3. 3 Meditate 5-10 minutes to get rid of extraneous thoughts. Take deep breaths, focus on inhaling and exhaling. Stop and relax to write with maximum concentration. Let your brain reduce stress levels and focus on work. The lower the voltage, the easier it is to think about business.
4. 4 Admire nature for peace and inspiration. Get away from the hustle and bustle of your life or change your environment to return to work with maximum concentration. Nature helps to stimulate intelligence and creativity, allows you to think and find unusual connections between ideas.
   • Take a walk or go to the park. Consider trees, landscapes and animals.
5. 5 Read in fantasies. Let go of consciousness and allow it to become interested in new topics or ideas in order to take a different look at familiar things. Find a secluded spot, close your eyes, and let your brain create new scenarios with different people in different places. Focus on the images that come up in your head. Do not look for word associations with such images.
   • Think of the person sitting next to you at the airport. Imagine his life. Where does he live? Who does he work for?
   • Imagine the life of an insect. What is life in a hive like and what would you do?
6. 6 Become a member of a literary circle to find like-minded people. Discuss work with other authors to research new topics and get feedback on your stories, and make the necessary changes.
   • Find the right group in your city or gather people who love to write.
   • Get together at a local café and discuss story ideas. Read your work to each other and share your opinion.
7. 7 Learn about your favorite writers and their creative habits. Some authors always write in one place, drink a lot of coffee, or study butterflies. Habits can be anything. Each author finds his own way to seek inspiration and work effectively. Select and research role models to learn their methods.
   • For example, Ernest Hemingway woke up and immediately began to write, and Kurt Vonnegut did push-ups and squats between work.
8. 8 Start a new story if work stalled. Sometimes a new beginning gives the necessary impetus and ideas begin to flow like a river. Open a new page and start working on a completely new piece.
   • Instead of an autobiography, write about an unusual person you met at a store.
   • If you can't come up with an ending for a detective story, try writing an inspiring retelling of events from the life of the protagonist.
9. 9 Experiment with shapes and genres. Experiment to get your brain to think in new systems and find inspiration.
   • Try writing a poem if you're working on a novel right now.
   • Stop working on the collection of poems and write a story about the final rest.

Warnings

• Plagiarism isn't just for moral reasons. In some cases, it comes down to litigation. Always include your sources.