How Being Creative At Work Improves Your Writing

Writers Write creates resources for business writers. In this post, we write about how being creative at work improves your writing.

As part of the business writing course we teach at Writers Write we include a module on creativity. If you want to see a competent, skilled and talented business writer quake with fear this would be the place.

I start the session by asking the delegates if they consider themselves creative. Perhaps one or two say a hesitant yes, two or three say maybe, and one always says a very definite no.

How Being Creative At Work Improves Your Writing

What is creativity?

I believe that every single person can be creative. Google says creativity is the use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness. That would be the ability to draw, to choreograph a new dance, to build, to invent, or to make.

I can’t draw anything other than a stick figure. I can only dance with the aid of alcohol. And building? Well let’s just say my kids ask their father to build their forts. Mine tend to collapse, taking down everything within a ten kilometre radius. But all is not lost. There are things I can do. I like to play with words. I love arranging flowers. I love wrapping gifts.

I create something that was not there before.