How To Have A Constant Flood Of Wonderful Ideas For Your Writing

Without any ideas, there’s nothing to create from, no starting point, no initial spark to ignite your creative fires.
Sometimes it feels as if having new ideas for your creative writing is the hardest part of writing, and much more challenging than the writing itself.
The first step to having a constant flow of ideas is to open yourself to the concept that ideas are all around you and there to be discovered all the time.
Imagine a radio station called IDEAS FM that is broadcasting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All you have to do is be aware it’s broadcasting, then you can tune yourself in to that frequency.
Next, get yourself an Ideas Journal. This has to be THE key technique you need in place if you want a steady flow of ideas.
The problem in the past has not been that you don’t come up with any ideas. It’s that you don’t record them, hoping that you’ll just remember the idea at a later date. Then, you forget, as you’ve forgotten 1001 other great ideas, so it feels like you never even had the ideas in the first place.
An Ideas Journal is just a notebook small enough for you to carry around with you wherever you go. As soon as an idea comes to you, write it down in your journal. Don’t judge, dismiss or over analyse the idea, and whether you think you can develop it, just write it down in a way that captures its raw energy and essence. Then continue with what you were doing before.
When you need a new idea in the future, simply take out your Ideas Journal.
Scan through until you find the first idea that leaps out and catches your interest. Again don’t over analyse, and don’t go through the ideas in chronological order trying to force something great from each and every one. Go with the natural energy of the first idea that grabs you, then get down to writing where it takes you.
What you’ll also find once you have a few pages full of ideas in your journal, is they start to breed and evolve without any further input on your part. Capturing ideas in your journal is like the equivalent of planting young seedlings in a greenhouse with a constant supply of sunlight and water. They naturally grow, so when you return – whether it’s a day later or a year later – as soon as you read that idea, any number of associations and connections will begin to form in your creative mind.
Follow this process and you’ll have all the creative writing ideas you’ll ever need.