Being creative is something that is built in to all of us. Everyone has the potential to innovate and create. The trick is understanding how to unlock that creativity.
I'll cut a long story short and start by presenting the full, succinct, scientific definition of creativity.
Creativity is a heuristic process of semantic association leading to novel concepts.
That might not mean too much offhand, but it's extremely useful. Once I've shown my working you'll be able to harness the incredible creative capacity that lies untapped in every one of our minds.
Good writing prompts can be an extremely effective productivity tool for a whole class of creative writing problems, from blogging to college essays, speeches, social media post ideas and even marketing campaign strategies. Especially when writer's block pays an unwelcome visit.
You might be surprised to know you're every bit as creative as the most creative people on the planet. All of us have exactly the same creative mental machinery to make profound, creative leaps at any moment.
The difference? Some of us are simply better at using that machinery.
Sitting down to a blank screen, bereft of ideas, is a writer's horror of days past. Admittedly, I still get chills thinking about fruitless nights spent wondering what potential customers and clients could possibly want to read about (in blog format).
As an exercise I wanted to compare my old creative experiences with the modern experience - now that there are sophisticated heuristic tools to help enhance our natural creativity.
Every influencer and marketer knows that fantastic social media post ideas are the life-blood of a healthy online community. Fresh topic ideas are vital to keeping social media feeds on trend and readers engaged.
From the solo blogger to international brands, a huge amount of time, effort and planning goes into generating creative new topic ideas.
