Comments on: Use your inbuilt story antenna

By: Writing Hint #27: Use your memories

Writing Hint #27: Use your memories — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:34:13 +0000

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By: Writing opportunities

Writing opportunities — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:17:49 +0000

[...] It annoys me when writers say they don’t know what to write about. Goodness – I have so many ideas my problem is that I sometimes don’t know what to write next. Writing ideas are everywhere. I have written about that here. [...]

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 31 May 2007 05:28:05 +0000

Unbelievable – it actually works?

Seriously though, I rarely have trouble coming up with writing ideas. Since beginning to blog daily in March 06 I have trained myself to “write on demand” and the discipline is starting to take effect. I must be honest and say that I have “off” days here and there when it is very difficult and it feels like I am just grinding out words with great effort. Then there are those days when the ideas and words just flow. Love it when that happens.

I don’t think I’ll ever run out of ideas for writing. At present am in the happy position of having far too many to use, meaning, there are not enough hours in the day to get them all done.

By: Robert Hruzek

Robert Hruzek — Wed, 30 May 2007 12:02:31 +0000

Trevor, this is a great technique I use whenever I remember to use it! Yesterday, after reading this post, I was free-associating as I drove. Here’s what happened:

An oleander bush led to (after about 25 different rabbits being chased), which led to memories of grade school bullies (don’t ask!) which led to:

A post about self-worth! Voila!