In journalism, one of the most important skills you can harness is the power of observation. By observing your local area, you can generate ideas for stories. The same goes for creative writing.
Sometime this week (especially because the weather is warm) go out and observe people, events, or even businesses to see something interesting happening in your local neighborhood. If something doesn't originally strike you as interesting, take time to see people who are interacting within a setting.
One of my favorite things to do is to go observe people in my local Starbucks and see who they are with, what they are drinking, and what they are doing to make inferences about who they are.
Here is an interesting video on the power of observation below. Good luck, and happy writing!
(2:19 on is the best bit of this 8 minute long video.)
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