Creative Writing

When was the last time you really challenged your creative side?  I don’t mean tried to write a hundred articles in a single day, but really challenged the limits of your own potential?  I recently had the chance to do just that.  I was hired to write 15 articles about a subject I knew nothing about, well almost nothing.  I had to write 15 articles about cellulite.

The thing about this was that I knew very little about the subject.  I knew what it was for the most part, I knew why I had it, and I knew that it wouldn’t have been my first choice in article topics.  But, I took the gig and began doing my research.  I read everything I could find on medical websites, health and fitness sites, even exercise equipment sites.  If it had to do with cellulite, I was reading it.  When I had finished the articles, I knew more about cellulite than I ever wanted to know.  But, I had learned something.

Being a creative writer isn’t something only meant for fiction writers.  Those who write non-fiction sometimes have to be even more creative.  The non-fiction genre is a tough crowd.  There is a lot of competition and everyone is out to top everyone else.  In order to be part of the game, you not only have to know what your talking about, you have to do it in a way that makes you stand out.  That’s the hardest part.

Whatever you write, I challenge you to go above and beyond what you’ve done so far.  Challenge yourselves to move beyond the “what you know” scene and become informed about any subject you know nothing about.  Once you’ve broke that boundary, I challenge you to do it again.

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