Secrets to Generating Creativity in Literature

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How does a writer come up with innovative, creative, imaginative stories?

Easy.

I mean this is so easy it's almost ridiculuous, absurd, and embarrassing.


SECRETS to Generating Creativity in Literature:


1. Think of the most bizarre title you can possibly imagine.

Make the title so crazy and weird, everyone will be curious about how a story could be organized around it. In fact, make it nearly impossible to write anything that would have this title. Challenge yourself to stretch your mind beyond what you thought was your limit.

For example:

* The Day Gravity Vanished from Earth and I Became a Successful Art Dealer

* How To Make Yourself Vanish and Re-appear, at Will, Anytime You Want, For as Long as You Want, for under $2o!

* When the Earth Suddenly Became the Only Object in Space

* Adventures of a Paralyzed, Blind, Deaf, Mute Extrovert

* How to Record the Sounds of Galaxies Colliding

* My Tie Likes to Argue with My Toothbrush

* My Journey 500 Trillion Years into the Future...and What I Saw Is Really Funny

2. Start each paragraph with a startling sentence, especially the very first sentence of your story.

Most stories and novels begin with boring sentences and take forever to build up to anything interesting or unusual.

Be different. Command attention. Hit readers right off the bat with something that will force them to keep reading.

3. End each paragraph with a sentence that doesn't have anything to do with the first sentence, or is so unexpected, it's bizarre.

Make readers think, "Huh? Wait a minute. He said at the start of this paragraph that he didn't have a head. So how did he kiss his girlfriend?"

4. Add overly personal comments, or tangential details.

Sprinkle in extra asides and information that actually gets in the way of the narrative, making readers think this story really happened to a real person.

When average people tell what happened to them, they always go off on tangents and add irrelevant details, as their mind makes non-narrative associations.

How many times have you interrupted a friend, saying something like, "To make a long story short, what did the cop do when you pointed the squirt gun at him?" or "Okay, okay. I don't need to know all that. Cut to the chase. How much money do you need to borrow from me now?"

5. End the story with a powerful concluding remark.

A comment that teaches a lesson, expresses a final feeling, or is so funny, it'll make the whole story more memorable.

Stories with "twisted endings" are strikingly unforgetable, and you tend to encourage others to read them to experience the shock, right? Of course I'm write. I'm a genius creative writer!

Happy Tales to You!


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