Be Different, Get Creative in Learning

In an earlier post i had emphasized upon the importance of originality in writing. We all have different approaches and ideas about various things and ideally, your writing should reflect your own ideas and not those of other people. In order to bring creativity and lend your writings a distinct touch, consider visualizing the incident you are writing about. If you are writing a travelogue, describe things as they appeared to you and not how they are commonly perceived. Describing the Taj Mahal as a magnificent piece of architecture puts nothing new on the plate. But maybe when you looked at it, you saw something unusual. A crack, a fissure, an oddity that struck you. Write about that. It’s your own work and you have the right to describe things as you see them.

If you have taken up the task of writing about something you haven’t seen then try to imagine yourself in that situation. Like our takes on things, our thoughts also run in different directions. Given the same scenario, your friends might imagine completely different things which may not even occur to you. These varied flights of fantasy will make your imaginative work stand out with fresh, new perspectives. Make sure you avoid the cliched descriptions of things and observe carefully to bring something different to the limelight. Look beyond the obvious and creativity is yours.