3 Quick and Easy Route to Generate Story Ideas
by:
Shery Ma Miss Arrieta-Russ
There are many an route you can generate ideas you can use for your stories, articles and else creative pieces. Start with the three route given below:
1. Put Your 5 Senses to Activity
A simple but effective way to generate fresh ideas from a single concept, idea or object is to describe or illustrate it victimisation the 5 senses -- sight, smell, touch, taste, sound.
For you to do: Generate 5 specific pictures or concrete examples (one example for each sense) for the following:
vindication (what's the smell of vindication? how makes it taste? how makes it sound? what makes it look like? how makes it feel?)
hesitation
celebration
2. Take Advantage of Your Conflicts
Conflict is a part of life. It's likewise a source of creativity. You only need to look at yourself and examine your experiences to move up with ideas based on conflicts.
For you to do: What's stopping you from doing something? Who is in the way of you effort what you want? What's stopping you from taking a career leap? Brainstorm for conflicts in your life and move up with at least 15 in your list.
3. It's OK to Call Folk Names
Generate nicknames or terms that capture the lifestyles, attitudes or characteristics of certain groups of people.
For example, the nicknames I came up for the kind of folk I encountered on the bus once
I used to commute to activity and back were: space-hog, slumper, fidgeter and refined. The terms represented
how the folk on the bus behaved as they sat. [They were useful because I was able to avoid the space-hogs and the fidgeters once
choosing a seat. Sitting beside a slumper was all right, since most slumpers unbroken
their slumps inside
their space ;o)]
For you to do: Generate nicknames or terms for the following groups of people:
cashiers
waiters
teachers
employees
actors
Begin victimisation these 3 simple route of generating ideas today. Before long, you'll be churning out one idea after another with ease. That's creative thinking at work!
About The Author
Copyright (c) 2004 Shery Ma Miss Arrieta-Russ
Shery is the developer of creative, motivating and fun e-mail courses for writers. Sign up and take an e-mail course today...free! http://writingbliss.com
This article was announce on Gregorian calendar month
21, 2004
