To elevate your creativity, diversify your experiences

If there’s one thing you can do right now to elevate the way you write or create, it’s diversifying your experiences. As creatives, what we expose ourselves to influences what we create and those same experiences are what ignites our imagination.

And it doesn’t necessarily take jumping on a plane and heading to Bali, although if you can do that then go for it. What I’m saying is that it’s important to change your daily habits and incorporate different experiences into your routine.

For example, if you normally come home and watch TV, try going outside for a walk. If you normally end your night by scrolling through social media, try listening to music or reading a book or magazine. Go to events that are a bit left of your interests. Say yes to things you normally say no to. If going out by yourself scares you, do it. This shift in your behaviour will change your input which will inevitably change your output.

As writers and creatives, we have to continually find ways to generate ideas. This is a simple way to make that happen.

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Corey is reflecting on his life as a teenager who has just had his first child. He relives his story through a series of fragmented memories, pieces of sporadic thought capturing moments of his life as he tries to care for his family. But Corey is failing, and as he continues to struggle he realizes how easily the world can fracture his ambitions and force him to settle for a life of mediocrity. Thoughts of a Fractured Soul pushes the reader to piece together these fragments themselves, and decide on what part of Corey’s conflicting tale can be trusted.

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