I’ve been writing a lot of essays for scholarships lately, heres a couple tricks I’ve picked up in the process for anyone who’s in the same boat.<\/p>\n
1. Switch the medium.<\/b> –\u00a0When I get stuck I always get off the computer and write on paper. The ideas flow smoother for me there. In art I change materials often too, from pencil, to pastels, to felt pens. I find more ideas come that way.<\/p>\n
2. Idea wheels.<\/b> – In art I’m doing a surrealist project that uses one of these right now. The idea is simple, there is a list of words, and you randomly choose three, and then write\/draw\/paint something involving those words. You can be literal, or metaphorical or end up doing something else entirely, but they get your creative juices flowing. The Brainstormer<\/a> is a cool online wheel (I found it on Drawn!<\/a> which is definately worth checking out if you’re interested in any type of art). If you don’t want to leave quite so much up to fate, you can just look at the list of words and choose something that intrigues you.<\/p>\n 3. Get excited.<\/b> – It doesn’t even have to be about your project. Prepare by reading something inspiring, having a deep conversation with a friend, or looking at your favourite blog. Then, when you start your project try and bring some of the elements that moved you into your own project, such as a tone of voice, perspective, style or colour scheme. If you start the project feeling good (as apposed to doomed or distressed) you’ll be more open to ideas, and it will be easier to get some momentum.<\/p>\n 4. Eat chocolate.<\/b> – Seriously, the answer to all life’s problems. It’s important to reward yourself when you’re working hard on something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been writing a lot of essays for scholarships lately, heres a couple tricks I’ve picked up in the process for anyone who’s in the same boat. 1. Switch the medium. –\u00a0When I get stuck I always get off the computer and write on paper. The ideas flow smoother for me there. In art I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-3707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-perpetual-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}