How To Have An Unstoppable Flow Of Creative Writing Ideas

If you don’t have any ideas, you’ve got no starting point to write from, no raw material to shape into beautiful stories, poems and books. A writer without ideas is like a wood sculptor without any wood or a tailor without any fabric.
Many of us as writers claim we don’t have any ideas, or if we do they’re not the right ones, or they’re not good enough. So here are the two key elements to having an unstoppable flow of creative writing ideas. Start to put these in place in your writing life today and you’ll see the positive results within days:
Key Element 1: Stimulating and seeing ideas.
Why is it that two people can walk into the same situation or visit the same place then when they recall the visit one will say: “Wow, it was wonderful, there was so much to see there, I’m bursting with inspiration”, yet the other will say “No, there was hardly anything there, really disappointing”..?
Was it really the same place they went? Yes, but the difference was, the first person went along with eyes wide open, along with the rest of their 5 senses. They have the attitude that inspiration is all around us, ideas are everywhere, and the best way to see them is to, well, keep your eyes open.
The other person will have already decided that the visit would show them nothing new, that there’d be nothing to inspire them. So they went around with their senses on shutdown, so much so that they might as well have gone in with a blindfold and a deep sea diving helmet on. Backwards!
The more you expect to see ideas and inspiration wherever you go, the more you allow each of your senses to be stimulated and notice what you’re experiencing through each of them, then the easier you’ll have new ideas.
Key Element 2: Capturing ideas.
Most of us already have more ideas than we realise, even if we do walk around like Mr Deep Sea Diver in the example above. The problem is that we don’t CAPTURE these ideas, and they disappear as quickly as they arrived, never to be seen again.
How often have you had an idea pop into your head at the most unexpected time, thought “Hey that’s interesting, I could do something with this later…” then when “later” comes you realise you’ve completely forgotten what the idea was all about?
The best way to capture this flow of ideas is to use an Ideas Journal, a small pocket size notebook you can keep with you wherever you go. When an idea comes to you, just jot it down in your ideas journal so it’s safely captured to use further later.
The additional advantage of using an ideas journal is that once you get into the flow of using it regularly, you find that each time you note down an idea, another 2 or 3 seem to appear in its place. They start queuing up to be used!
Start using these two crucial techniques today and within days you’ll notice a dramatic increase in the flow of new ideas you have for your creative writing.