Comments on: Five Ways to Find Subjects for My Daily Writing https://doncho.net/2022/12/five-ways-to-find-subjects-for-my-daily-writing/ Късчета живот Thu, 01 Dec 2022 23:28:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Atanas https://doncho.net/2022/12/five-ways-to-find-subjects-for-my-daily-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-242893 Thu, 01 Dec 2022 23:28:02 +0000 https://doncho.net/?p=4196#comment-242893 The “Oblique Strategies” method is also a good creativity booster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies

There’s also an app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.monoloco.obliquestrategies

The app basically let’s you slide through a deck of cards, each containing a very short phrase or sentence, e.g.:

– Think of the radio
– Adding on
– Abandon desire
– Not building a wall but making a brick, etc.

I first found a reference to this technique in Mark Teppo’s “Planning, Plotting, and Progress: A Guide to Building Your Novel” – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25986758-planning-plotting-and-progres

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