How Reviewing Your Best Writing Can Unleash Even More Creativity
This article is a precursor to my Medium Day Presentation, “The DNA Of Your Best Writing Is In Your Failed Articles”. If you enjoy this, feel free to stop by this Saturday at 5:30 PM for more.
As a full-time writer and writing teacher, there’s no question I’m asked more than, “How do you come up with ideas?” Readers often ask this in regard to an article they liked (my clunkers are a topic of discussion for another day, for there are many).
It’s too simplistic to wave people off by saying they should just brainstorm, or bark at them, “Just write.” Writing and repetition are surely important, but with a system of ideation, and syncing those ideas into cohesive articles, you can produce articles you’ll be proud of.
For many of you, this system already exists and you don’t realize it.
I used to think ideas could only fall out of the sky and that I couldn’t replicate how it happened. I’d get frustrated and wonder how I came up with “that good one” from the prior month. So often, I worried I’d lost my creative mojo.
With time, I realized ideas often come from a mode my brain gets into.
I have a terrible memory and found it’s of absolute and paramount importance to write everything down. Even my worst ideas have occasionally made it to the final version of an article.
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