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Has Your Creative Writing Practice Made You a Better Problem-Solver?
What if your creative writing practice has taught you conflict resolution in more ways than you realize?
Though it may seem to be words on a page, creative writing, whether fiction writing or creative nonfiction, a poem, or a personal essay, is a process of translating a vision into a reality.
And if you have a regular creative writing practice, you are either building worlds through fiction, examining through poetry, or revealing your own through personal narratives and essays.
As such, along the way, you may incur a problem. That problem may be resolving the conflict you created in your story with clarity and truth. The problem may be conveying your truth in verse. The problem may be expressing vulnerability without playing the victim through personal narrative.
No matter the problem, your writing practice will help you become more solution-oriented—our thinking pattern changes when we regularly complete written work.
We become aware of conflicts.
Oh, we can sniff out conflict a mile away. It may be subconscious, but we feel it as it is happening and know when conflict unfolds. How?
