What makes a creative person a creative writer--no, this is not a trick question. The answers are: they possess those creative ideas and they write them down, then they expand and stretch their concepts and imagination so that they can come up with short stories, essays, articles, poems, novels and the list could go on and on.

Would you like to be able to write more easily, more deeply and more abundantly and do you want to have more concepts for imaginative writing? By using a creative writing journal is by far the best and most effective way of being able to do this. A creative writing journal is just a sketchbook or any portable notebook you keep or bring along with you wherever you go and jot down all your ideas and concepts in imaginative writing when they come to you.

It may sound very easy and effortless, doesn?t it? But why do you think this would help someone?s pursuit of writing creatively? Well, if an aspiring writer does not have any ideas at all, their writing does not even get started or will it get anywhere! And if a creative writer does not capture or get hold of their ideas, they will not even be called or considered a writer, they?re only a thinker! The 3 essential strategies in creative freelancing: 1.

Having imagination and ideas. 2. Capturing those imagination and concepts. 3. Developing and improving those ideas into bigger pieces of writing. How often have you had a sudden flash of inspiration or you visualized something, and then with just after a few hours or even a few days later, recalled that you had a great idea, yet you cannot actually remember what that was? There are times that we fear that we do not have adequate concepts or imagination, but the truth is, we do have lots and lots of it! We just don?t capture them right away, and then they simply pass us by, forever gone with the wind and forgotten just like that.

That?s why carrying your handy creative writing journal is a great help because it enables you to capture your ideas, then you could then go on in enhancing them. The target here is for you to be able to go back to your journal and the idea jumps straight out at you and provides you with the same feeling as it did when it first came to you.

All you have to do to catch your ideas is to jot them down. Utilize adequate descriptions and details and try storing the essence of the idea what made it exciting and interesting for you, the moment it happened. The more practiced and experienced you are at doing this, the lesser words you will have to need in recording down in your journal to catch up and capture this whole essence.

The last part of being a creative writer is developing and enhancing your ideas. The most effective way to use your journal is to grab and catch the very first spark of interest that inspires and motivates you in your journal. Go along with that initial imaginative energy and begin writing out from that and improve it to your liking.