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How To Become An Idea Generation Machine
The Story Of the Salmon Smoothie
Drinking a salmon smoothie is a throw-uppable offense. There, I said it. Wait. Maybe if you remove the skin first it wouldn’t be so vile. No, I don’t think there is any possibility of making a salmon smoothie appetizing.
But where on earth did I get this crazy idea? The title of this post is “How To Become An Idea Machine.” I never promised all your ideas would be good. Just like the salmon smoothie, some ideas just aren’t worth pursuing. Most of your ideas from this process will suck. But there is some good news.
You Don’t Need Lots Of Good Ideas
You just need lots of ideas. Let’s pretend you write one story a day. For the more prolific, or the fiction writers, let’s pretend it’s two scenes or two stories per day. If you dream up twenty ideas a day, you only need two good ones. That’s a ten percent success streak.
The Formula
So, how do we find these ideas? Here’s the entire system.
First, you need a phone. I’ll assume you already have one of those. Second, you need a notebook. You can use your laptop if you prefer but I find a good ole paper notebook works better.
