Ideas: Part 01

Ideas:  Part 01

Ideas are everywhere.  A professor of mine named Michael Gordon had the interesting saying, "Imagination is the rearrangement of memory."

You cannot avoid influence.  Your mind absorbs thousands of pieces of information every moment.  If you simply take two unrelated pieces of information and combine them, suddenly you have ideas.  

Right now in my peripheral vision I see a teddy bear and a fan (on different sides of the room).  Go!

A teddy bear is riding in a helicopter he made himself.

A teddy bear cruises the Louisiana bayou after hurricane Katrina in a hovercraft looking for stray animals.

A teddy bear is being chased by a fan.  The fan is jealous that the teddy bear gets all the attention.

Okay - as you see - two things put together make for ideas try it.  Flip to random pages in a magazine or on the web and then combine them into an idea.

The key comes with selecting which ideas have story potential.  That will be a future blog.  (Trying to keep these shorter)