Ideas Machine Part 2

[nabbit]

My ideas machine is broken, so I have been trying to find out out how it works, so that I can replicate it's operation manually.

The first stage is to input a title, or a phrase, and some of you have kindly given me some suggestions: thankyou; I will use them all eventually, but for now I'm starting with "Duality", which was mentioned by bothmonocat and discipline_lad

Comments

[douglasnoble]

Process! Awesome, I'm really enjoying this so far!

[nabbit]

Thanks!
I'll get on to the Edward de Bono stuff soon: he advocates that creative thinking should be a systematic and ordered process. And I confess I haven't been doing that for a while - hence low (ie zero) productivity in recent months.

[abrassea]

anne lammott is awesome. i still haven't read any of her books (other than a couple essays in one sitting at b&n), but i saw her do a reading years ago and she seemed like a really cool and genuine person.

[nabbit]

It's a book I keep by my bed and read and re-read. Another one that I think is similar in terms of philosophy is the tiny supplementary booklet by Ivan Brunetti that came with Comic Art Annual 9. Anne Lammot talks about brocolli and sandwiches; Brunetti goes on about pasta.

[monocat]

interesting - this side of things has always been a bit of a mystery to me - I'm very scattershot with story ideas & have a liking for random... but that may all come back to the way I look at the world

'duality' probably popped into my head because (again) of my way of lookin at things... I have some gestating narratives swimming in my head - i have started picking out things, but whether it will come to ought, who can say...

i supose the books I've recently digested don't help...
Audiobook of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mocking Bird
may not seem so much, but one thing that sticks with me is Atticus's asertion that to know someone you have to get into their skin
China Mieville's The City & The City was rather fab... (I would love to see Matt Brooker do an adaptation of this book) - that is a superb example of duality

[nabbit]

Even though I go through this whole process, I usually settle on an final idea that has some current resonance with me, which may be because of a book I'm reading.
Duality is a good starting idea, but this morning I woke up and noticed that werewolves and Battenburg cake are nowhere on my lists!

[monocat]

battenberg (as per a dear friend) is "window cake"

werewolves is not far from jykell & hyde - which I think I saw on the list - anumus anima yin yang

sides of the coin are part of the whole

[losttoy]

Wow! That is a lot of work to come up with a idea for a comic. No wonder you let your idea machine do it for you. My cheap idea machine does not have a list maker part. I guess that is why I do not draw that much at all.