- Space Shuttle Main Engines firing at liftoff.
Here’s a little exercise I like for coming up with ideas and stories.
- Pick a story from a magazine, website, book, tv show, or whatever that grabs your attention.
- Summarize the article (or the part that intrigues you). This helps focus your thoughts.
- Brainstorm answers to these questions (or any others you can think of):
- What are the implications of the idea?
- Why did it tickle your imagination?
- Who would the idea affect?
- What are the benefits and/or dangers?
- What scenarios might this lead to?
- What problems would it cause?
- Are there solutions?
- Who would be the least likely hero to deal with this?
- Run with the idea.
This is great, Angie. I struggle with the ‘coming up with the idea’ part most of all so am always open to new techniques.
and, wanted to let you know I linked your trailer on my blog. I’m doing a series on ‘how to make a trailer’ and needed some for people to reference. Hope that’s okay! It’s a good one.
oops…thought it would pick up my blogger id. That was me commenting above.
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