Grammarly

MARCH 26, 2025

In this guide, youll discover 17 brainstorming techniques designed to help you generate, organize, and refine your ideas: Classic techniques like freewriting and mind mapping to get your creativity flowing. They help you tap into creativity, overcome writers block, and generate ideas freelywithout worrying about perfection.

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Nick Ursborne

MAY 12, 2024

As a budding young copywriter in the early 1980s, I worked with an art director as my partner, and our work was overseen by the agency’s creative director. Creative directors were at the top of the pile in Creative Departments. They shaped the overall creative output of the agency. But… where’s the creative director?

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 14, 2025

Photo by Google DeepMind Todays post is by author, filmmaker, and podcaster Elizabeth Rynecki. Through a quirk of fate, I avoided the dreaded first-book comedown that often follows the publication of a debut work. The feeling of having poured everything into a single personal project and then wondering, whats next? never quite hit me.

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Agency Content Writer

DECEMBER 2, 2024

They combine creativity with technical skills to ensure the content meets audience needs and organizational goals. This can vary from blog posts to web articles, newsletters, and social media posts. Skills Required for Content Authors Content authors must possess a combination of technical and creative skills to succeed.

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Grammarly

MARCH 23, 2025

Brainstorming is a powerful way to spark creativity and generate ideas in the writing process. Whether youre working on a novel , an academic essay , or a blog , brainstorming helps you see your project from a new angle and break through creative roadblocks. Overcomes writers block: It provides a clear process to jump-start creativity.

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Enchanting Marketing

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Henneke’s class on Stories in Miniature was just the creative boost that I needed. I’m feeling much more creative and can spot the dull areas. Further reading: How to tell stories in 150 words (or less) and How to write a narrative blog post Type of story #5. You know what’s my second most commented post ever?

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Photo by Tasha Lyn on Unsplash Today’s post is by author and innovation speaker Jason Keath. Creativity can feel a lot like those unreliable game cartridges. Every successful writer develops creative habits to help them get their version of Zelda back on the screen. It reminds me of playing Zelda with my dad in the 1980s.

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

C U T on Unsplash Today’s post is by Orna Ross , the founder of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi). But I do believe in creative planning for authors, the kind of plan that recognises the power of the subconscious. Recent research and ancient wisdom about the creative process is now available to us all. Or so I thought!

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Nick Ursborne

DECEMBER 18, 2024

[NOTE: In my last po st I worked with GPT4o to help me convert some presentation materials into a post. In this post I worked with Gemini 1.5 This post is specifically for copywriters and content creators who are already familiar with the basics of LLMs (Large Language Models) and are ready to take their AI skills to the next level.

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Jane Friedman

JULY 18, 2024

It’s the old right next to the new again—both wonderfully creative in their own right. These are signs of a city that doesn’t just honor the creators of its past; it also celebrates and encourages the creativity of the people there now. Imagining, contemplating those lives both past and present sends my imagination into overdrive.

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Jane Friedman

JULY 31, 2024

Today’s post is excerpted from Tarot for Creativity: A Guide for Igniting Your Creative Practice by Chelsey Pippin Mizzi. In the early stages of building her business, she came to me to explore the ways that tarot could support and inspire her as a creative business owner. So, the Fool became Nina’s creative archetype.

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Enchanting Marketing

JANUARY 28, 2025

Examples: Very, actual, in my opinion, really, just Chewy sentence: In my opinion, this blog post is fun. More nutritional: This blog post is fun. For instance: What is a good blog post? A rather bland question: Would her audience be interested enough to read her blog post word by word? Chopping off is the best advice.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 1, 2025

2024 was a year of consolidation as I got my creative house in order and began to shift my creative and business processes. Shes also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. I'll also keep filling my creative well in order to keep creating sustainably for the long term.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 22, 2024

How can you balance self-care with achieving your creative goals. In April 2020, back in pandemic times, I talked to poet and creative coach Mark McGuinness about how to stay creative in difficult times. Definitely keep that image in mind, sketch it on a post-it, and stick it up above your desk. She uses Artist Dates.

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Photo by Edz Norton on Unsplash Today’s post is excerpted from Tarot for Storytellers: A Modern Guide for Writers and Other Creatives by Kris Waldherr. Stories help us make sense of our life, seek creative solutions, find connections, and to experience empathy for others. Published by Muse Publications LLC. I’m a storyteller.

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Photo by Karolina Koodziejczak on Unsplash Todays post is by doctor and novelist Emma Olive Billington. Ina Garten, if youre reading ) If youre interested in trying the Pomodorini technique to reignite your creative life and improve your writerly wellbeing this year, here are a few tips you might find helpful: 1. Start low.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 13, 2025

How can you balance creativity with business in order to have a profitable, long-term author career? In the intro, the money episode [ Ink In Your Veins ]; WISE for multi-currency banking ; creative planning tips for 2025 [ Self~Publishing Advice ]; Surprising Trends Authors Cant Ignore in 2025 [ Novel Marketing Podcast ].

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 8, 2025

Photo by Quentin Guiot Todays post, the first in a series, is by writer and creativity coach Anne Carley ( @amcarley.bsky.social ) who believes #becomingunstuck is an ongoing process. Embracing the process Those conversations with my friend reminded me how much of creativity is process.

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Grammarly

OCTOBER 30, 2024

AI tools, like Grammarly, are helping enterprises optimize every stage of the content marketing process, from brainstorming ideas that will resonate with audiences to refining content for various audiences and channels, resulting in improved creativity, efficiency, and measurable results.

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Photo by Anna Shvets Todays post, the fifth in a series, is by writer and creativity coach Anne Carley ( @amcarley.bsky.social ), author of FLOAT Becoming Unstuck for Writers , now in its second edition. Accept some inevitable chaos Another is to accept the erratic nature of the creative process, which is rarely linear or swift.

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 15, 2025

Photo by Masood Aslami Todays post is by writer and creativity coach Anne Carley ( @amcarley.bsky.social ) who believes#becomingunstuck is an ongoing process. As creative people we want to be aloneand sometimes need to be. Were not alone. But underneath it all, were not alone. Progress was not made during this period.

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Freelance Union

DECEMBER 13, 2024

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from working with creative freelancers and small business owners for a couple of decades – most of you don’t love marketing – am I right? There’s a reason why my most popular webinar is called Marketing For Creatives Who Hate Marketing !).

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Enchanting Marketing

MARCH 25, 2025

Clinchers appear as the last sentence of well-written social media posts, blog posts, essays, or book chapters. Sometimes, you also find them at the end of a section within a chapter or blog post—just before a subhead announces the next section. However, at the end of a book chapter or blog post section, you can choose.

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Ashleyn Writes

JANUARY 10, 2025

Today, Im sharing five AI prompts that Ill carry into this yearand Im convinced theyll supercharge your creativity and efficiency too. For this post, I’m including screenshots from exactly what we send our CopyBank.Club subscribers, so you can get a taste of that. Its also great for repurposing content creatively.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 18, 2025

Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko Todays post is by writer, coach, and brand strategist Michelle Tamara Cutler ( @mickytcutler ). As creative industries shift, we have to shift with them I was ready to embark upon the fifth iteration of my website. Her recommendations clashed with my creative instincts.

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Freelance Union

OCTOBER 15, 2024

What creative ideas, projects, or initiatives are you hatching right now? Oh, because if you’re a freelancer or creative business owner, I know you’ve got a thing or two (or twelve!) Goal: Write a fun, actionable, business book to help creative freelancers build a fulfilling, efficient, and profitable creative business.

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 13, 2025

Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko Todays guest post is by Allison K Williams ( @guerillamemoir ). But modeling dedication, focus, and commitment to a creative project is also good parenting! I write most blog posts shortly before theyre due, but I know the rhythm of a post and what makes a click-y headline. Firefighter.

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Freelance Union

JULY 29, 2024

  Now, this might be an extreme example, but I think all creative freelancers and small business owners can relate to this fear, just a little bit. As a business coach, one of the most common challenges creative freelancers and entrepreneurs share with me is: not having enough high-quality, well-paying clients. Am I right?

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 25, 2025

Todays post is by David Griffin Brown and Michelle Barker , co-authors of Story Skeleton: The Classics and Immersion and Emotion: The Two Pillars of Storytelling. Creativity in structure A significant part of a novels creativity lies in the manipulation of its structure, as we will see in the following examples.

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Bramework

JANUARY 3, 2025

Platform-Specific Customization Generate tailored content for platforms like: Facebook Twitter/X Instagram captions LinkedIn posts Pinterest pins Email newsletters YouTube scripts Step-by-Step Guide Using a Content URL Navigate to the Social Media Content Generator. Select Content URL and paste the link to your source material.

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Enchanting Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The beauty of discomfort I like the creative part of me. Creative work is inherently scary. But even more so because creativity requires showing up and being vulnerable. To find that joy, I need to stop worrying about how well a post might do— What will the reaction be? This is my last post of 2024.

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Enchanting Marketing

JANUARY 14, 2025

How to stay creative Creativity can seem fickle. Just when you need to write your next blog post or newsletter or social media post, you can’t seem to find an idea. Secondly, review what else is required to keep your creative soul happy. What feeds your creative soul? Sound familiar? Pay attention.

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Grammarly

JANUARY 27, 2025

Known for their ability to understand and generate humanlike language, GPTs have become a cornerstone of modern AI applications, offering solutions in creativity, productivity, and data analysis. Unlike models focused solely on classification or prediction, GPTs generate original outputs such as text, code, or creative content.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 11, 2025

Todays post is by author and book coach Anne Janzer. Creative work, like science, simmers in a global soup of ideas bouncing and colliding with each other, generating new ideas. Hat tip to Jeevan Sivasubramaniam of Berrett-Koehler Publishers for suggesting this I think it was in a LinkedIn post. But credit is rarely guaranteed.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 1, 2025

Todays post is by author Teri Case. It took a series of public posts by Friedman and interviews with worldwide outlets such as BBC and The Guardian before the fraudulent titles were removed. I didnt have thousands of dollars, but I did/do only have one nameone I wanted to reserve for my creative works and publications.

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Backlinko

DECEMBER 27, 2024

It also generates outlines and creative content. Marketing Generative AI tools let you quickly brainstorm marketing campaign ideas as well as draft blog posts and articles. Advertising You can take advantage of AI advertising tools to generate both copy and creatives for your paid promotions. How does ChatGPT work?

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Another year ends, and once more, it's time to reflect on our creative goals. Shes also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. I am the kind of creative who enjoys wrangling chaos and I can be a whirlwind of creative energy. Did you achieve everything you wanted to?

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