GET YOUR CREATIVE JUICES FLOWING
Maybe you're a seasoned author, or maybe you just decided today to take up paper and pen. Wherever you are, the question remains the same, "How do you figure out what to write?"
When you decide you want to write, but you're at a loss for words, how do you find your story? Are you searching for a topic? Do you have an inkling of an idea but just can't grasp it? Do you have an idea but just don't know where to start? Do you know where to start and just not know where to go from there? We've all been there. How do you get past it? How do you get those creative juices flowing?
Finding Your Story
Just keep your eyes open, friend. Look around you. No, not like that! Really look. What do you see?
It's not a vase. It's a flower slowly blooming for the last time. It's not a blanket. It's an unused fort crumbled sadly on the soft, plush carpet. It's not a child. It's your toddler learning to walk, exploring the world around him.
Really look at your world. Explore it like your toddler is doing.
Exploring Your Way to Words
Once you learn to explore your world, the ideas will begin to flow. Your ideas. Don't see your world through the tired eyes of a word-worn writer, but through the bright eyes of a budding author exploring a brand-new land. Whose world is this anyway? Whose story? Whose words? They're yours for the taking. Yours! So, keep your eyes open. Your world awaits—the world of the printed word.
About the Author
Nishoni Harvey
Growing up, I never feel like I’m good enough. This follows me into adulthood and is only solidified when I send my first book into publishers to only have them reject me time and time again.
Finally, my mom suggests a publisher in North Carolina. They publish my book, and it sells over 70 books right out of the gate, making it a bestseller, but it soon falls out of the rankings. I don’t know how to keep it there. Again, I feel like a failure.
Since then, I’ve written a chapter for two other published books, published my second fiction book, ghostwritten 16 nonfiction books, and authored two of my own nonfiction, self-help books.
Sometime between then and now, I have a lightbulb moment. I am on another downward swing with my bipolar depression, and I am thinking about how unhappy I am. It’s then that I think how happy I was during my years spent teaching children and teenagers and how much I love writing. “Why not do both?” I think. “I could teach others to write their book!”
I start my business with great motivation and ambition, but the clients don’t come. Depression starts to seep in again, and I start to give up. I keep doing the job that I’m contracted on, formatting a book for a plastic surgeon in Australia, but I drop everything else and start teaching English as a second language.
One day it hits me, Doctor Barnouti is using his book to show that he’s an authority in his niche and gaining clients! I teach others to do that!
Today, I help business owners struggling to get their names out to write their book so they can show themselves as an authority in their niche, get speaking engagements, and reach their ideal client through my company, Authors Aflame.