Idea generators say “Get an idea!”

[avram]

Meh. I don’t hold much with fortune-telling per se, but I find some techniques useful as creativity stimulators, generators of semi-structured randomness that I can spark ideas off of. At least, sometimes.

So I’m trying to come up with plot ideas for this comic strip I want to work on, and I consult the Astrodice drcpunk picked up for me at GenCon. What do I get? The Sun and Scorpio in the 5th House with the lead pipe — brilliant creativity. Yeah, yeah, I know, I’m trying to be brilliantly creative, you dumb hunks of plastic, but it’s not flowing, so make with the ideas! OK, let’s try the Voyager Tarot — the Ace of Crystals, which means brilliance. Gee, thanks.

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[nellorat.livejournal.com]

In a context in which those results have meaning, I'd say they mean that you think the problem is lack of ideas, but it isn't--that the problem is somewhere else, you have the ability to generate the ideas on your own, so what's stopping you?

Then, based purely on what I know of you and of writing, I'd ask about things that I've discovered that often block ideas: having a lot of ideas but not settling down on one to develop; being too critical of the ideas during the vulnerable formative stage; waiting for The World's Best Idea to come along; expecting ideas to develop themselves instead of doing so through one's hard work.

Maybe none of these are relevant, of course!