John's Ideas And Creativity

There is a video on YouTube where the Mary Poppins tune "Chim Chim Cher-ee" is played using a pencil.   I've been using the so...

I've always called this the  Neo technique, which is short for neologism. The idea is to make up a new word and treat it like a fake en...

This post has examples of thinking "journeys" generated with the WIPED SWABS thinking tools .  Example 1 For the first example I...

This is a bunch of ten thinking tools I've developed over the years.  The main point of the tools is to guide my thinking on any topic. ...

I learned all the cognitive biases to see if a common theme was evident. One thing I noticed was that many of them focus on things that are...

Writing stories and brainstorming can overlap. With the SMUCKS approach, I write a discussion on a subject that takes place between the memb...

I've been collecting useful words for many years. That is, words that appear to be key when thinking about a subject, and thus lead to t...

Highly recommended: Random Word Generator

This is a nice simple process to approach creativity. DO IT 

There is now a blog about the SSILD lucid dreaming technique: SSILD lucid dreaming