Comments on: Writer’s Block and a Creative Deadline? Go back to bed. http://owler.com/-blog/2008/10/how-to-get-ideas/ Exploring Painting Apps for Tablets & Phones Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:25:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ana http://owler.com/-blog/2008/10/how-to-get-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Ana Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:03:51 +0000 http://owler.com/-blog/?p=108#comment-168 That is the sincerity of creativity in presence. :) When I am at peace and awareness, I feel I express myself easier through the various means of creativity. This is more often than not, and is reflected in the way I share my message. That is the sincerity of creativity in presence. :)

When I am at peace and awareness, I feel I express myself easier through the various means of creativity. This is more often than not, and is reflected in the way I share my message.

]]> By: Adele Aldridge http://owler.com/-blog/2008/10/how-to-get-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Adele Aldridge Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:16:43 +0000 http://owler.com/-blog/?p=108#comment-32 Valerie Wise-Owl, I get amazing information in my dreams - enough so to write a book about - if I were so consumed with the blogging business. Another place where idea pop are in the bath. Valerie Wise-Owl,

I get amazing information in my dreams – enough so to write a book about – if I were so consumed with the blogging business.

Another place where idea pop are in the bath.

]]> By: Barb Hartsook @ Over Coffee http://owler.com/-blog/2008/10/how-to-get-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Barb Hartsook @ Over Coffee Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:40:21 +0000 http://owler.com/-blog/?p=108#comment-31 The subconscious mind is an amazing part of our brains -- it never sleeps and apparently can work puzzles more efficiently when we rest the conscious brain. The trick, I think, is to give it enough pieces of the puzzle it can put them together to make a picture we can work with. I know, Anita! When it happens and we can remember it, what a happy eureka! Maybe I'll reopen my Dreamweaver as well as the Missing Manual plus the HTML Code book I use as guides and try to sleep through the solution of my corrupted website pages! Hahaha! Barb The subconscious mind is an amazing part of our brains — it never sleeps and apparently can work puzzles more efficiently when we rest the conscious brain. The trick, I think, is to give it enough pieces of the puzzle it can put them together to make a picture we can work with.

I know, Anita! When it happens and we can remember it, what a happy eureka!

Maybe I’ll reopen my Dreamweaver as well as the Missing Manual plus the HTML Code book I use as guides and try to sleep through the solution of my corrupted website pages! Hahaha!

Barb

]]> By: Owl http://owler.com/-blog/2008/10/how-to-get-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Owl Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:06:11 +0000 http://owler.com/-blog/?p=108#comment-29 Very interested in your example of the computer game, Anita! Something very similar happened to me. I put it in a comment about it on Barb's blog, but think it's worth repeating here. I do find ’sleeping on it’ particularly effective, not only for dreaming up creative ideas but for finding hard solutions. Once upon a time in the dawn of the net, I had a go at writing Basic code. One night I got in a frightful tangle, with nested ‘if, then, else’ commands all hopelessly jumbled together. I wrestled with the problem until about 2.30 am and in the end just had to go to bed from mental exhaustion, even more muddled than when I started. In the morning I woke with everything neatly arranged, the code about a quarter the length and complexity of the night before. This happened again and more than once. Very interested in your example of the computer game, Anita! Something very similar happened to me. I put it in a comment about it on Barb’s blog, but think it’s worth repeating here.

I do find ’sleeping on it’ particularly effective, not only for dreaming up creative ideas but for finding hard solutions.

Once upon a time in the dawn of the net, I had a go at writing Basic code. One night I got in a frightful tangle, with nested ‘if, then, else’ commands all hopelessly jumbled together. I wrestled with the problem until about 2.30 am and in the end just had to go to bed from mental exhaustion, even more muddled than when I started.

In the morning I woke with everything neatly arranged, the code about a quarter the length and complexity of the night before.

This happened again and more than once.

]]> By: Sliloh http://owler.com/-blog/2008/10/how-to-get-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Sliloh Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:45:24 +0000 http://owler.com/-blog/?p=108#comment-27 Great post and I love your humor. I've solved lots of problems that way, it really does help to kind of let it go on a conscious level. I remember a computer game I played and I was totally stuck for hours, went to bed and dreamed the solution. I wish my dreams worked like that more often :D Anita Great post and I love your humor. I’ve solved lots of problems that way, it really does help to kind of let it go on a conscious level. I remember a computer game I played and I was totally stuck for hours, went to bed and dreamed the solution. I wish my dreams worked like that more often :D

Anita

]]> By: Barb Hartsook http://owler.com/-blog/2008/10/how-to-get-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Barb Hartsook Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:25:50 +0000 http://owler.com/-blog/?p=108#comment-26 My best ideas come after I've stewed a bit... for instance, in Chris Price's Painter Lab at the Digital Art Academy, the first week's assignment was to <i>paint bold.</i> I asked me <i>what is my bold</i>? A week later I picked up the brushes (translate Painter X and Wacom Tablet brushes) opened a canvas and started painting. My bold turned out to be not colors or large brush strokes, but something completely different that I allowed to come out of my head impromptu. It was an interesting concept. My best people paintings come from photos I've loved looking at -- for whatever reason. Usually they are unposed shots that suggest a story to me. I let those thoughts stew a bit, and then out of the blue I know what I need to paint -- or write. Now if I could just get organized -- I've been <i>stewing</i> over that for sometime now. :) My best ideas come after I’ve stewed a bit… for instance, in Chris Price’s Painter Lab at the Digital Art Academy, the first week’s assignment was to paint bold. I asked me what is my bold?

A week later I picked up the brushes (translate Painter X and Wacom Tablet brushes) opened a canvas and started painting. My bold turned out to be not colors or large brush strokes, but something completely different that I allowed to come out of my head impromptu. It was an interesting concept.

My best people paintings come from photos I’ve loved looking at — for whatever reason. Usually they are unposed shots that suggest a story to me. I let those thoughts stew a bit, and then out of the blue I know what I need to paint — or write.

Now if I could just get organized — I’ve been stewing over that for sometime now. :)

]]> By: Owl http://owler.com/-blog/2008/10/how-to-get-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Owl Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:42:12 +0000 http://owler.com/-blog/?p=108#comment-25 Thank you for commenting, JR. I changed your sex! Found your article interesting and very true. As an advertising copywriter and sometimes cartoonist, I have many times found the Bus, Bath and Bed advice to be apt. I can cudgel my brains for inspiration to no avail, go away and ideas just drop into my head at the most unexpected moments. Most inconveniently in the middle of the night. Thank you for commenting, JR. I changed your sex!

Found your article interesting and very true. As an advertising copywriter and sometimes cartoonist, I have many times found the Bus, Bath and Bed advice to be apt. I can cudgel my brains for inspiration to no avail, go away and ideas just drop into my head at the most unexpected moments. Most inconveniently in the middle of the night.

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