Practise 360 Degree Thinking
Develop your writing by using multiple perspectives
Imagine that you live in a round-house on the top of a hill. Every window looks out to a different view. When you look out of one window you can see the coastline and that makes you feel a specific emotion of being by the sea, which is the inspiration for your next Pirate novel.
Through the second window of your round-house, you can see miles of trees and open fields. Looking at these trees and fields, you are inspired to write a jungle adventure with explorers in the Amazon searching for a lost city.
When you look out from the third window from your round-house you can see the city, with all its towering buildings against the spectacular landscape. You are inspired to write a detective crime novel set in a city.
While through your fourth window you can see your street and neighborhood, including the long winding path leading to your front door. In this moment of quiet reflection, you begin to think of an article or a story of a person living in an ordinary neighborhood, where nothing ever seems to happen, though there are actually dark secrets locked behind closed doors.
You can effectively enhance your creativity by using multiple perspectives for your writing. In order to practice 360 degrees thinking you need to develop a sense of strategic hindsight, foresight, and insight into your writing career.
Hindsight: This is the ability to understand an event after it has happened. For this type of thinking pattern, the writer will need to look at his completed work and then review it like a reader, trying to be as critical about its presentation and content.
Foresight: This is the ability to predict what will happen or what will be needed in the future. In this way of thinking the writer will need to envision the several ways and directions, he can utilize the information he has in order to create the article.
Insight: This refers to the capacity to gain an accurate and deeper understanding of a person or of an event or something else of importance. The article written by the author should be as accurate as possible, based on the likes and dislikes of his readers. In order to sell more copies of novels or non-fiction books an author needs to have a good insight into the tastes and trends of readers for his or her genre.
There is yet another method for the writer to develop a more productive and complete circular 360-degree thinking and that is by using the art of mind mapping.
Mind-Mapping: This refers to the art of visually organizing information in a diagram to make it more comprehensible and to show the connected links between items on the mind map, with the help of words and images. Mind mapping is an interesting and innovative technique to help spur a writer’s creativity.
Perspectives: I like to view a topic from several perspectives for an article before I get down to write it from my chosen view.
Emotions: Every article which we write should evoke the emotion we want. We need to guide the reader, with the correct choice of words and phrases to feel the emotion we want them to have. If I am writing about a topic that is about some sort of victory, I would like the reader to experience that same emotion after reading my work.
