inspiring Cues

Invent your own pasta sauce. Give it a original name!

I dare you not to use tomatoes or double cream…

Think about the most weird favor you could ask to a stranger on the street. Now think about the most weird favor you could ask to tou mother. Why are they different?

Go to the movies and keep looking at people’s reactions during the film. (works better in a movie you’ve already seen!)

Make a list of good examples of nervous ticks for characters to have. 

Create a new, original way of fortune telling. Write down how this system works. Do you use cards, the stars, or the bowels of a dead animal? Figure it out and write itdown!

Read theories about domains you never read before. Try Physics or Psychology for a start.

Practice <a href=”http://creativegibberish.org/439/divergent-thinking/”>divergent thinking</a> for 10 minutes a day, through brainstorm. Use stimuli that are close to you, such as “what can you do with a keyboard” or “how many functions can you find for your sleepers”. Be as loose as you could be.

Do some searches with random words on internet. Use words that you’d hardly see together in a sentence, as tomatoes, republicans and liver.

Learn any other language - specially if english is all you can read and speak! Check the poetic connections between this language. For instance, in Portuguese, love and pain are perfect rhymes.

Read magazines you’d never buy for yourself, about subjects you’re not interested, and pay attention to the ads displayed there. Do they reach you?

Write your own metaphors. Spend 10 minutes a day thinking about brand new, never heard metaphors!

Read about harmony on music theory. See how chords and scales talk to each other and create meaning within the music

Search on the internet for news regarding a country far, far away, from which you never heard anything about and read a bunch of them.

Try to think about an interesting way of changing the rules of any classic game such as tic-tac-toe or checkers…