Be Creative - A Quick Guide to Developing Brilliant Ideas & Unlocking Your Creative Potential by Jay Anthony

Author:Jay Anthony [Anthony, Jay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jay Anthony Writing
Published: 2015-02-23T18:30:00+00:00

Development

Now that you’ve finished the brainstorming process, it’s time to narrow down your ideas. Run through your paper which is full of words and scribbles and highlight the top three things that you like the most. Picking out ideas that you genuinely appreciate will make the process of development much more fun and less job-like. Now that you have done that, write the remaining thoughts on a second sheet of paper and highlight the next three ideas you like the most. Compare these six ideas you’ve highlighted and decide on which one(s) you would like to develop.

Never throw away your brainstorming sheets. Always keep them saved in a folder and refer back to them every once in a while. That idea you thought was absolutely horrible the first time you wrote it down? If you come back to it at a different time you may find that it was actually brilliant, which can give you a starting point for your next big project.

Now that you have decided on a single idea, it’s time to grab a few more pieces of paper. With a new sheet, write your idea at the top and underline it. What you have underlined is essentially your “baby” and now you must begin feeding it so it can develop into a mature, intelligent idea. In order to do that, you simply begin writing again- this time with things that actually pertain to your “baby.” Take that initial idea and stretch it as far as you can. Add onto it with embellishment, make it pop, and make it even more unique than it was before.

Essentially what we are doing at this stage is brainstorming (just like last time), but with more of a definite focus. Begin organizing your ideas and introduce a bit more logic and neatness to your paper. Build, build, build until you’ve exhausted all of your mental material. Stretch, stretch, stretch, until it breaks- not in the literal sense, but in the sense that you’ve busted out of your conventional thought process.

Once you’ve over-built your initial idea, it’s time to begin narrowing it down. Cut off any residual embellishment which may not directly pertain to (or contribute to) your project. It’s important not to cut off so much that you lose your creative edge. The end goal is not modesty, but rather boisterousness; loud and in-your-face. Creativity is rarely tame and in control.

Remember to stick with it. Do not give up on your idea mid-development, because starting over can eventually become a hard-wired habit. I learned this the hard way when I started writing my first novel. I wrote a rough draft, began finalizing it, and half way through I decided to scrap the entire thing. One year later I was back at square one with no starting point or reference material. (That book never got written.) Always finish your work.

It is easy to become overwhelmed at this stage as well, so it is important to let your ideas breath. Give them both space and time to grow.

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