Creative Writing: How Increasing Self Belief Can Improve Your Creative Writing

There are two main ways this can be done.

The first way to improve your creative writing is simply to practice writing in as many different creative ways as you can.

Start with all the ways and types you already know, then add to this range one technique at a time.

Creative Writing: How Increasing Self Belief Can Improve Your Creative Writing

There are many different sources of creative writing exercises and prompts available that can give you the starting point and that initial kick of inspiration needed to head off in a new undiscovered direction with your writing.

The other way to improve your creative writing is less obvious. But in fact over the long term it's the one that is most powerful.

Without it, you're writing will always have a glass ceiling, a limit to how sophisticated, rewarding, inspiring and wonderful it can be.

Now sometimes a few limitations can be good when we create, it gives us something to push against, a boundary to stretch, a fence to leap over...

But in this case we want to smash through that glass ceiling. Then we can really start to soar...

The key to what sets your limitations, and what literally decides how high (or low) that glass ceiling will be is simply how good a creative writer you BELIEVE you are.

Or, taking this a little wider in scope, HOW CREATIVE YOU BELIEVE YOU ARE.

It doesn't take long to realise that someone who's riddled with self-doubt, whose confidence is shot to pieces and wonders if they can ever write their name again, let alone a poem, story, or novel, is not in the best shape to create.

Most of us have been in this position and it's not a pleasant place to be.

There's no guarantee too that we'll never return there. But if you invest some regular significant time and energy into building your creative self-belief, your times of doubt will be less severe and less often.

One of the best techniques to increase your self-belief in your own creativity is to take time each day to write out and speak out loud some affirmations.

An affirmation is simply a positive statement that, said often enough, and regularly enough, can help us reprogram our thinking, away from negative and destructive patterns of thought, to more positive, uplifting and powerful ones.

A good tip for writing affirmations is to use the three Ps:

Positive: Make sure your affirmation is written in a positive way. For example: If you feel you lack self-confidence when creating, then turn this around and write "I have all the confidence I need."

Personal: Make your affirmation personal, always start it with "I". Just saying positive words may help in some way, but associating them with yourself is far more powerful and beneficial.

Present Tense: Your affirmation should be in the present tense, as if you already have the positive quality. So even if you don't have loads of self-belief right now, don't say "I'd like to believe in myself more." Instead use the present tense: "I strongly believe in my creative writing ability."

This is just one way to increase your self-belief and therefore improve your creative writing.

Practice affirmations at least twice a day for 14 days and notice the difference it makes to your creative writing.

Creative Writing: How Increasing Self Belief Can Improve Your Creative Writing
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Creativity Coach and keen creative writer Dan Goodwin helps people who are frustrated they're not making the best of their unique creative abilities. See more at his website: http://www.CoachCreative.com