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How to Breed Ideas

by `fantasio, Feb 22, 2011, 8:38:51 AM
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How do you breed ideas?

As illustrator who has to pull out ideas out of the hat like rabbits on a daily basis it looks like a routine, but what method works best for you?

In this article I try to explain how to keep ideas fresh and always growing to successfully prevent a creative block or worse.

[http://fantasiox.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-to-breed-ideas.html]

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~pauscorpi Feb 22, 2011

Thank you for this article! It is tremendously helpful and a joy to read; a lot of things that have been lurking now make better sense

`fantasio Feb 22, 2011 Professional Digital Artist

thanks for the feedback, appreciated!

~sferguson Feb 22, 2011 Professional Digital Artist

Great read Oliver!

`fantasio Feb 22, 2011 Professional Digital Artist

thank you!

=joseph-sweet Feb 22, 2011 Professional General Artist

I find that this is the same for writing fiction as well. I have to let an idea brew if I'm not yet ready to put it down on paper. As you said - and I've said this to pople before - if I try to do an outline or write a breif summary of my idea down, the story dies for me. Whatever creative force inside me was insisting to be let out, is gone the second it gets written down. Letting it sit there in your mind, thinking of it now and again until you either have the time to do it justice or just can't hold it in aymore is the only way to keep it alive. I sometimes forget things if I wait too long, but as you said - and as Stephen King and others have said - the strong or worthy ideas will survive. As you pointed out, it's the emotional connection to the work that makes anything creative stand out. Without it, it's just a dry concept with no emotion and that shows.

`fantasio Feb 22, 2011 Professional Digital Artist

Thanks for your feedback, appreciated. I think this can be applied to many art-forms where "sketching" down ideas is an essential part. I´m not too much into writing, except blogging, but I get what you say about the summary. I make only notes about a possible headline, which is connected to the idea of an article, but until its written, its all open.

=joseph-sweet Feb 23, 2011 Professional General Artist

I do something like that with novels occasionally. Rather than giving into the urge to write an outline for chapters, sometimes I'll go through and create a list of initial chapter names instead, where the title is something that reminds me of the idea I have for continuing. Whereas if I write the idea out, I tend to lose the inspiration when I come back. I actually wrote a whole novel in rough form (about 30,000 words before initial edit which brought it to about 60,000) in three days that way. I went through first - when I didn't have the time to sit down and work on it but it was burning to get out - and outlined the book by creating a list of chapter titles. When I came back the idea was still fresh, but the chapter names sparked my memory as I went. In the past I tried writing full outlines and it just killed my inspiration. They work for some authors though, I guess.

*MJWilliam Feb 22, 2011 Professional Traditional Artist

A great article, Oliver. Many things rang true for me, especially about the sketching.

`fantasio Feb 22, 2011 Professional Digital Artist

thank you!

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