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Creative Writing Ideas
- How to Have Them
By Steve Gillman
Are you waiting and hoping for
creative writing ideas? Why not use some simple techniques to
produce as many ideas as you will need? Here are a few to get
you started.
Combine
Stories for Creative Writing Ideas
There is a technique
called "concept combination" which is to create new
products to sell. Use it to create new stories, and it is usually
good for a few laughs and a few ideas as well. All you have to
do is imaginatively combine old stories into new ones. For the
most creative ideas, use stories which are unrelated in their
theme. Suppose you start with the biblical story of Adam and Eve,
and combine it with the movie, "Star Wars." Perhaps
in the new story a man and a woman are placed alone on a new planet,
as an experiment to see what will happen over the centuries. Would
they or their future offspring develop our same ideas about God
and morality?
Get crazy if you want. "King
Kong," and "Romeo and Juliet" could become a story
about when apes learn to speak, and the first human-ape romantic
relationship develops. The couple is of course rejected by ape
and human society. How about "Frankenstein" and "Gone
With The Wind?" Start dreaming
up those new creative writing ideas.
More
Ways To Have Creative Writing Ideas
Make a list of what is most important
to you. Take anything from that list, and find a story in it.
For example, if honesty is important to you, create a story populated
with characters that are defined by how honest or dishonest they
are, and show the consequences of this trait. If there is some
political principle that is important to you, imagine new stories
which show what happens when this principle is followed - or when
it isn't.
Make a list of
the stories most like. Start with any story you really like, and
think about how you would have told it, or how it could be told.
The start writing to see if the idea "grabs" you. Romeo
and Juliet has been successfully retold
a hundred ways in books and movies, under many titles. Why not
find a formula you like, which has been proven to work, and write
your own updated version?
Watch the evening
news and make a list of the stories. This source is mined by television
shows all the time. Try to add a twist that will get the story
read. For example, take a real
life
issue that is in the news and approach it from a different perspective.
Perhaps it could be a story of a businessman who profiteers after
a hurricane, but you find a way find a way to make him the good
guy.
One of the best
ways to get ideas is to write anything right now. The English
writer Graham Green attributes his success to a simple habit:
He forced himself to write at least 500 words daily, whether he
felt like it or not. Creative inspiration can strike at any time,
but it strikes more often when there is work instead of waiting.
Just start writing and you'll have more creative writing ideas.
About the author:
Steve Gillman has been studying
brainpower and related topics for years. For more Creative Writing Ideas visit: http://www.IncreaseBrainPower.com/creative-writing-ideas.html
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