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Quick Idea-Generation Techniques, #6

by Rico on July 23rd, 2008

You’ve pushed your creative mind through all the motions, and yet your idea well is as dry as ever. Looks like you’ll have to admit defeat and:

Ask others for help

To recap, here are the five quick idea-generation techniques I’ve written about over the past few days:

1. Remember what you did for the day, and get some ideas from that
2. Just create
3. Be ironic or sarcastic with your message
4. Make having no idea into your idea
5. Re-use an old idea

That’s all I could think of. At a certain point, I realize that there are really some times when formulating a creative idea for your next project is next to impossible. Luckily though, I’m not the only person alive.

I ask you, fellow freelancers, what other quick idea-generation techniques are there? I know that you all have different experiences, perspectives, and mindsets; this means you may see what I can’t or know what I don’t (or vice-versa). Our differences is what makes asking others for help so worthwhile, because they potentially lead to different ideas.

In short, I’m asking for help about quick idea-generation, because I’ve honestly ran out of ideas, and am hoping that you’re being different than me means that you have an idea that I haven’t considered; would you like to share?

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