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Stop Writer’s Block: 10 Minutes to Ideas to Write About

November 9, 2006 by Liz

Plenty of Ideas — Make Things Up!

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A young man wrote this week,asking how he might open his mind to be more creative. We passed emails back and forth. He said he knows that he stops his ideas. He asked if I might point him to how he might open his mind to let the ideas flow.

Do you have that problem too? Let’s check.

Stop right now and make something up. I’m sure you know how. Make me taller or shorter or older or younger, or any some such. Invent a new character in your life who is all evil or who is all good. That wasn’t so hard, was it? Okay we’ve got the making things up part covered. Most of us learned that in childhood.

Making things up is the stuff that ideas are make of. The exercise training for getting better at doing that involves time spent test driving your subconscious and unconscious a bit.

I’m going to show you one way to do that using a photo, your brain, and about 10 minutes.

Old Moon in New Moon

C’mon turn the page.

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Filed Under: Idea Bank, Inside-Out Thinking, Successful Blog, Writing Tagged With: bc, finding-ideas, Finding-Ideas-Outside-the-Box, Idea Bank, reflecting-before-writing, Thinking-outside-the-Box

Finding Fodder for Future Ideas

June 1, 2006 by Liz

Finding Fodder

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Yesterday, Joe of Working at Home on the Internet reminded me of my days going to press runs, when he was talking about his experience as a printer.

Immediately my mind flashed to this story.

I was in the car with my friend KB on the way to a press run. We’d worked 12 weeks straight living in the Marriott New York East Side. Now we’d flown into Chicago and were driving into one of the suburbs. She was driving. I was looking out the window. I was taking in all of the signs of the restaurants and stores as we passed by them.

Then, suddenly out of the blue I heard, “Will you . . . .SHUT UP!”

It seems I had been reading every sign out loud.

“I don’t really need you to read me every sign we pass,” she said. “What was that?”

“Sorry,” I said. “Fodder.”

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Filed Under: Business Life, Idea Bank, Outside the Box, Productivity, Successful Blog, Writing Tagged With: bc, blog-promotion, fodder.-ideas, Idea Bank, personal-branding, Productivity, Thinking-Outside-of-the-Box

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