How to Have a Fulfilling, Creative Writing Life

The Doorway into Creativity Portal's Inspiring and Helpful Writing Guide

The art of writing takes on many forms. Whether you're writing for business or for pleasure, Creativity Portal provides an abundance of inspiration and how-to's for a fulfilling creative writing life at every stage.

In this section you can explore a variety of writing topics and professional articles on calligraphy, poetry, journal writing and blogging, creative writing, copywriting, fiction writing, and collaborative writing. Creativity Portal also features the Blogger.com recommended Imagination Prompt Generator, a push-button prompt tool and a growing cache of writing prompts and photo inspiration to spark your creative writing and blogging sessions.

If expressing creativity through your writing life is important to you — especially through collaborative efforts — we recommend browsing our Creative Journey Inspiring Blogs section and soaking in an excellent feature by teacher Heather Blakey and a group of Soul Food Cafe community bloggers in a feature titled Zen and the Art of Team Blogging.

In addition, we've compiled a resourceful directory of other places online where you can find even more professional instruction, writing communities, prompts, and tools. Begin your writing journey by exploring the categories to the left.

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Creativity Portal has also been named multiple consecutive years as a Writer's Digest Best Web Site and has been recommended by Blogger.com and the English Journal, published by the National Council of Teachers of English at Colorado State University for its inspirational writing prompts and tools, instructional how-to articles, humor, and creativity.

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New Writing Articles

Using Photography to Inspire Writing IV
Exercise the mental process of contrast in visual as well as mental and emotional writing subjects.

Postcards from the Realm of the Sublime: Creating a Poet’s Journal
A poet’s journal is a valuable tool — a catch-all for the notes and phrases and word-lists and something funny your cousin said last week.

New Year's Writing Resolution: Celebrate the Person You Truly Are!
The fresh start for which so many of us have been waiting is here.

Keeping Faith with the Creative Process in your Writing
We need to give our own creative ideas a warm, safe place in which to germinate.

Creative Photo Inspiration Prompts: Light on a Leaf
Unadorned by leaves, the oak tree's shadow will be mostly static, stolid and steadfast, braced against the inevitable winter winds and weight of snow.