Mar2
There is a common misconception that in order to be creative you need to be able to draw.  I was a devout follower of this ideology until I realized drawing has nothing to do with creativity [1] (to an extent.)  It’s nice being to make your abstract ideas into concrete ones with beautiful visualization, but it’s not the only way.  I have found that there are simple things you can do every day that can help overcome the idea that drawing is creativity.
1.  Write.  Writing is a form of creativity that is expressed in feelings rather than images, but can have the same power.  I don’t mean novels either.  A simple tweet that efficiently and simply gets your idea across can be just as creative as a painting or drawing.  Every day I try to write on either my blog , Facebook or twitter not just to share content online, but perfect my communication skills.  It’s good practice because there is an audience, who judge your content and grammar, two things that produce good writing.  It can also be done from my iPhone which is a +.
2.  Draw.  Whoa!  I’m not contradicting myself here.  Really.  There are easy ways to draw for audiences that is fun, easy and fast.  I just downloaded a new iPhone app that let’s me draw for a small audience, is competitive and serves a purpose.  The app is called “Draw Free [2] .† It pairs you with a friend or a random person to draw words and your competitor must guess what the drawing is you drew on the app.  It is simple because it only provides you with simple drawing tools, a pen, eraser, and color.  The best part of the app is that there are no rules.  You can be as thorough or as simple as you want as long as your competitor is able to formulate the word that you drew.  It’s fun and easy to do.  Download it and stop being ignorant about creativity [3] .
Links
- ^ drawing has nothing to do with creativity (debmorrison.typepad.com)
- ^ Draw Free (itunes.apple.com)
- ^ creativity (mashable.com)
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