How to Get Back Into the Creative Writing Game

You're reading How to Get Back Into the Creative Writing Game, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. As a child, I never stopped writing — and I’m sure many of you were the same. Sitting at our desks at school or sprawled across the carpet at home, No. 2 pencils making a mad dash across the dotted lines. Creative writing was a way to escape, or simply to make our small worlds feel a little bit brighter. But as we approached adulthood, a sense of pessimism set in. We decided our work wasn't original, sophisticated, or interesting enough to continue. We went years without picking up a pen (or opening a new Google Doc, as the case may be). Until one day it returned — that stirring of imagination, the urge to write. But by now it’s been so long since we produced anything creative, we’ve forgotten how to even go about it! Luckily, even if you’ve been out of the creative writing game for years, there are plenty of things you can do to get back into it. I found myself in this position in early 2018; now, less than a year later, I’ve written several short stories and even begun a novel. In my own personal experience, here are the five best things you can do to recapture your motivation and get writing again. 1. Enter short story contests This is my absolute top tip for getting back into creative writing. As hard as it is to admit, many of us writers are g...
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