Four Ways to Get Your Creative Ideas Flowing like Never Before

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." Jack London (1876- 1916)

1. ISOLATE YOURSELF WHEN YOU FIRST START WRITING
Isolation can be a very good thing when it comes to writing techniques. If you are constantly interrupted by your kids yelling for dinner, phone calls from the bank requiring you to open a new bank account or having to feed your pets lunch, for example, you will never be able to get those creative juices flowing that you really need to finish off that book or article whose deadline is looming out there like a vulture in the Sahara desert.

Make arrangements with your family first before you attempt to get in the creative "Zen-like" state you need to be in. Tell them you need four hours alone in your office with no interruptions at all, or make sure you will not get hungry in the next two hours and have to take a food break. If you fall into the creative cloud within a few minutes, but then have to go and make a sandwich after writing just a few sentences, you have effectively ended your creative streak. Make sure that this does not happen to you. Make every possible arrangement to keep that Zen focus going at all costs!

2. COMMIT TO A BLOCK OF TIME SO YOUR CREATIVE IDEAS CAN ACCUMULATE FASTER
If you've never been able to get into that creative mode in which ideas come to you faster than a speeding bullet, it is a great idea to allocate at least two hours of your working day to examine just how long it takes you to enter this creative state of mind. It takes at least 20 minutes for most people to enter the most creative state of mind that they can possibly have, so your time frame should be no different.