The Basics: creativity online
June 17, 2008 by Cyndi Lavin
Filed under Basics - Getting Started, Designing

Online tools
Imagination Prompts
Are you looking for some random writing prompts or story starters for your journal, blog, or other creativity-related project?
Oblique strategies
A handy online version of Brian Eno’s creativity tool
Creativity and the periodic table
Roll your mouse over the table to see examples of each strategy
Excellent articles
Don’t wait for the muse
Apparently you shouldn’t sit around waiting for yours even if you do happen to believe you have one!
Creativity. We could all use more.
References three good articles on living creatively
Judith Reilly’s creativity page
Twelve life lessons for creativity
Six myths of creativity
This study may change how you generate ideas
11 tips to suviving a day job with your creativity intact
View your day jobs as the blessing that it truly is!
How to get your day job to leave you
How to naturally outgrow your current life right into the one that you desire
Best sites for a general pick-me-up




































Thanks for these links. I’m usually OK to sit down in the evening after my job and do the fun work, even if the fun work is serious business sometimes. Right now, I’m preparing to move but not until July 1. That means that I have days amid the chaos where all I want to do is chuck it all and wire up some beads.
All these ideas are floating in my head that I don’t have time to execute. However, they are at least now written down since it’s easier to find the few minutes to do that try to get to the end of moving and realize that I don’t remember a thing about what I was going to do with those specific beads I purchased for that special item which now resides nowhere in my head…
(my website is relatively new, more to come)
I’m glad you’re writing down all you ideas! My notebooks are absolutely priceless to me
Hope your move goes smoothly and you’ll have more space to do your work!