The most common hurdles to creativity are lack of time, lack of motivation, lack of clarity, lack of follow up ideas, lack of writing skills, which can all lead to a lack of confidence.
Mini Essays are a tool that can help you get over this initial hurdle and move forward with the ideation process. Mini Essays involve attempting to flush out your thoughts in as little as 100-300 words (3-6 paragraphs).
The reason creatives should consider incorporating mini essays into their creative routine is because its design helps overcome procrastination. They force the creative to make their big ideas concise and short. If the creative feels like they only have to commit to a few minutes and a few paragraphs to the idea, they are less likely to feel overwhelmed with expressing their creative thoughts.
Another reason creatives should consider incorporating mini essays into their creative routine is because they help overcome perfectionism. Perfectionism tends to be a killer to many new, budding ideas, that if allowed to be nurtured could turn into something great! Many creative can't get to or past this early budding stage. Since mini essays are so short, they remove the pressure that an idea must be fully flushed out, mature, or complete to start to the creative process.
Mini essays are the perfect tool to bring about that feeling of clarity and maturation to ideas that many creative people so deeply desire. Authors explain that we don't write because we have cool ideas to share. Instead, many profound writers realized that it's though the writing process that they receive creative inspiration and figure what the message really is. Additionally, as your writing routine become consistent, your will develop the skills to fully and more clearly express yourself, which will also aid in clarifying and maturation of your ideas.
In conclusion, mini essays are a powerful way to overcome the obstacles that prevent many creatives from showing up to their creative practice daily. They offer a low time and low energy way to show up, grow your writing skill set, and come up with even more creative ideas.
If you are a creative, you likely have ideas popping into your head all the time. Instead of letting it circle around your head and eventually be forgotten, consider writing a mini essay to see what that idea could be when allowed to be expressed. You never know what new ideas you could generate and ultimately what that idea could be if allowed to be nurtured to its full potential.
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