Sunday, November 8, 2020

A Fun Way To Stimulate Your Creative Powers

At the end of yesterday's post, Why Doing Nothing Is Doing Something, I promised to give you a few suggestions to help stimulate your creative powers. Here we go. 

If you believe that you're not a creative person, I've got news for you. Your brain has the ability to be as creative as any other person's on this planet, and the secret to stimulating your creative powers is to practice using them.

Creative power is a muscle that needs to be exercised to get stronger. Practicing every day will quickly get your creative juices flowing so fast that you're going to need a notebook at hand in order to write all of the ideas down. 

Here is a fun way to stimulate your creative powers. 

Rewrite The Titles Of The Books In Your Personal Library

How many books do you have in your personal library? Which are your favorites? Choose 10 and start rewriting their titles. Make as many new titles as you can. 

Here's an example: at the moment I'm reading "Shadow of the Titanic - The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived."  It's a great book by Andrew Wilson, in case you're interested in reading it. 

Here are a few ways I could rewrite the title:

1) Shadow Of The Titanic - The Hilarious Stories of Those Who Survived.
2) Gloom Of The Titanic - The Disastrous Stories of Those Who Survived.
3) Rats On The Titanic - The Whimsical Account of Horace and Hector, Two Rats Who Stowed Away On The Titanic And Lived To Tell Their Story
4) Playing On The Titanic - The Ruinous End Of The Band That Played On The World's Most Infamous Ship
5) Remnants of The Titanic - What The Greatest Maritime Disaster In History Teaches Us About Hubris 

I think you get the idea. Once you begin, you'll have dozens of titles running through your head. Once you've come up with a few you like, choose one and start writing the book. It doesn't need to be based on facts. The more outlandish, the more you're exercising your creative powers. 

This is a fun way to stimulate your creative powers. I'll share another one with you in tomorrow's post. 

In the meantime, get creative, have fun, and have a great day. 

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