6 Writing Practices to Get Your Creative Juices Flowing

Get creatively unstuck and unf*cked with these wonderful writing practices that each have something different for different types of creative people at different places throughout their lives.

100 Word Practice

Less than a year ago, I joined a small, private writers’ group. Our coach, the inimitable Annie Rachele Lanzillotto, suggested we all write a weekly 100 words to each other. Just 100 words. Exactly 100. Its been wonderful to examine how to re-tool a piece of work to fit that limit, to expand to that requirement, and to examine the density of language for better communication, lyricism, or humor. (I’ll be writing more about this practice and the surprises our group has discovered through doing this in service to each other.) Bonus, this description of the practice is 100 words!

More on the 100-words practice, here.

Mindfulness/Awareness Journaling (Today I Noticed)

This might be the most unsticking and unfucking writing process you can possibly get into, and it might not be creative. You might need this practice just to heal, to settle yourself, and move forward. Did I say…