"Where do you get your ideas? (non serious thread)”

Consuming questionable quality fantasy media because it entertains me and then imagining how it could be better.

 

I remind the idea of this thread.

Wanna get some ideas?

You must go the the beach in Rovaniemi, Finland. If you swim with reindeers, they tell you all the best stories what has happened in Christmas time around the world.

You hear best stories from the strange reindeer with a red nose.

(In Finnish, sorry.)

https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10896248

 

There is another way to gather ideas on the beach. I tried this in Danmark, but I think it works also on other beaches, as long as there are small stones and you have tides. When there is low tide the beach is full of small stones. If you are looking for a dark idea - let‘s say for a horror story- you have to go at midnight to the beach and hope for some moonlight. When moonbeams hit the stones they arrange themselves in small patterns, by reading this patterns you get the idea (don‘t worry, they are multilingual due to the seawater). If you want to get a bright, happy idea you have to go shortly after sunrise, the sunbeams cause a similiar effect. You will find the most precise ideas close to the water, farther away they become a bit blurred and some of them are merely writing prompts. The most brilliant ideas are often hidden benath some seaweed. Just make sure you arrive shortly after low tide.

 

Another method that I use requires that I have a free Pandora account. This provides me with an unending stream of words which leaves me with the task of sorting the ideas out of them. You see if you count the words you can keep track of the ideas come according to the desired nature. Every third word gives humorous SF if you want a different genre you select a different word count. Serious SF requires 8 words I believe. With a little practice, you should be able to figure out the word counts for what you want. Oh, there is the little matter of frame of mind while counting, with one frame of mind I get humorous SF our of 3 words, but another might get romance out of every third word.

BTW, a paid Pandora account would cut out the ads which are needed to help with punctuation.

 

If you find yourself out of ideas, you can do another Danmark -related thing...

Try to speak Danish.

There is two ways to do this:

1. Just do it. (After failing try again.)
2. Put some hot potatoes to your mouth and speak Swedish.

Trying to speak Danish has magical innovative powers. You brain twists to new position. That helps you to innovate.

 

Because I write historical fiction (or fiction set in the past) I get most of my ideas from research about the settings. I figure people are pretty much people, so I imagine them IN these settings, and go from there.

 

Are you sure this stays inside the guidelines of this thread? #1?

 

@jannert I'm sorry, but I must advocate for the devil now (or something about as bad).

Did that really follow either the letter of the spirit of that rule?

 

I would have been there first, but I went and got the actual quote.

 

I have a pen pal. It's a spirit, a ghost, a God knows what kind of immaterial being.

If I ask it ideas, it gives them. And all it asks for return is otherwise empty papers with my signature in low part of a paper, signed with blood.

I have started to think that there might be something I should think again with this deal.

 

Shit, I missed that. I should have told the truth, right?

Okay, try again.

I get my ideas from a jar. Or rather two jars. I've got one full of overcooked ideas and one full of raw ones.

 

My cat, she talks in her sleep.

 

I get my ideas from my goldfish. Wait their main idea is that I feed them as much as I can without messing up their water.

 

Nah, I wouldn't worry about it!

 

I should try that...

 

I get my ideas from my pillow group. Right now there are 3 pillows in the group. The fourth pillow is in the corner of the room for giving some naughty ideas.

 

Some ideas come from the ghost of Brutus. He laughs of the days he was scared of the ghost of Caesar. He tries to scary me, but he isn't much talented. I ask him questions though. He usually doens't know the answers, but as he babbles, I can catch a few useful information here and there...

 

Some would say that God is an immaterial being, but others would say that's immaterial.

 

Did the naughty ideas turn out to be something that might have caused the group to become larger if followed?

 

Does she sometimes talk of her sox drive?

 

Our kids sell their ideas to me.

I'm quite near bankruptcy.

 

I have always had naughty ideas. But I have invented how to get more!

I put one bucket full of naughty ideas to a concrete mixer. And then I add one bucket full or water and some dishwashing soap. (Fairy is ok.) And then I mix.

Usually I get 3 buckets full of naughty ideas by that way. And they are fresh and wet and soapy and slippery and...

 

Right now I am trying to get a name idea from a fly, but he is just bugging me to annoyance and that is very annoying.

 

From a fly?

That's stupid. You should ask a mosquito! Listening to mosquito's always gives you at least one good idea.

 

I like to hug mosquitoes with my fingers, but I think I hug them too hard so they end up dying. Well, because of that mosquitoes do not talk to me anymore instead they bite me.