This might give you ideas!
"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." Maya Angelou
A very quick bonus post this weekend, stolen entirely from Mason Currey’s Subtle Manoeuvres blog
It opens like this -
Don’t you hate it when a writer describes something as “famous” and you’ve . . . never heard of the thing they’re talking about? This happens to me more often than I’d like to admit, most recently while reading a New Yorker piece on the American poet Bernadette Mayer, who died last November at age 77.
I too had never head of Mayer and I read the New Yorker piece with interest.
But what I am really sharing this for is her amazing list of writing prompts - do follow the link.
Currey writes -
There are two categories of prompts here: a list of about three dozen journal ideas, most of them very brief (e.g., “food”; “finances”; “elaborations on weather”; “mail”) and a much longer list—more than four single-spaced typed pages—of “Bernadette Mayer’s Writing Experiments,” which charmed me to no end. A few of my favorites:
Write what cannot be written; for example, compose an index.
Attempt writing in a state of mind that seems least congenial.
Find the poems you think are the worst poems ever written, either by your own self or other poets. Study them, then write a bad poem.
Choose a subject you would like to write “about.” Then attempt to write a piece that absolutely avoids any relationship to that subject. Get someone to grade you.
Set yourself the task of writing in a way you’ve never written before, no matter who you are.
Write a work that intersperses love with landlords.
So while I am busy with the new writing course which I’m starting today, and all caught up in my latest ideas - this is something I may come back to when I need some inspiration for something new to write about!
Ann
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Great post, Ann. Reminds me of Benjamin Hardy's advice on strengthening your willpower. The more you use it, the stronger it gets!