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> I have a tub I chuck my idea cards into so that I stop thinking about them and get back to work. I used to call it the laterbase but later still isn't any clo

> I have a tub I chuck my idea cards into so that I stop thinking about them and get back to work. I used to call it the laterbase but later still isn't any closer after a decade. Apparently Bob Dylan used a similar trick to write music. “Whenever Bob Dylan overhears something interesting, he writes it down and throws it in a box. When it's time to write, he opens the box.” https://mobile.twitter.com/austinkleon/status/554021144202706944 https://mobile.twitter.com/austinkleon/status/55402114420270...

ido 4y ago
I have a big ol' google doc idea pad i toss ideas to whenever i get one. At least once this helped me to get an idea quick when an opportunity arose that required one quickly!
- corobo 4y ago
  I used to do it as a doc but switched to cards because physical is more real and you can literally shuffle them into a new order. Shuffle then go through the deck again for bonus ideas! Also I love writing with a sharpie. Tickles the brain just right lol
corobo 4y ago
Nice! I adapted my card system from David Lynch I think - he said 70 scenes/cards and you've got a feature length film, something I was deluding myself into thinking I could do at the time. Tried that for a bit but the films and TV drafts I curled out were never going to be good enough to be worth thinking about. I was just sinking time into them for no viable reward. That Masterclass service. Very entertaining if you're into the subjects but ultimately another thing I wasted money on trying to find happiness. It turns out happiness is literally just dopamine. You can get it anywhere. It's the assembly level language of life. Everything else is an abstraction on top of dopamine. I do wish I could have seen the one I codenamed "Dreadnought". The quick gist humanity has space travel but it is funded by filming the ships as reality TV. Naturally this meant for ratings the upper management would send ships into dangerous situations for the content rather than real need. Such a dumb idea but it was the most fleshed out haha. Dreadnought being the ship/show we follow as the audience. Recycled all the film/TV/story/music/fun cards and got back to work. I don't usually nuke idea categories like that but I can barely feed myself lmao, in what universe am I writing a film or TV show? Timewaster. Pop back down to reality dumbass, give that a go next lifetime. Kept the system for tech projects though :) Any time I am doing the idea generation part of a project I'll go through the existing ideas and shake out any new combos first. The system works for sure.

ido 4y ago

I have a big ol' google doc idea pad i toss ideas to whenever i get one. At least once this helped me to get an idea quick when an opportunity arose that required one quickly!

corobo 4y ago
I used to do it as a doc but switched to cards because physical is more real and you can literally shuffle them into a new order. Shuffle then go through the deck again for bonus ideas! Also I love writing with a sharpie. Tickles the brain just right lol

corobo 4y ago

Nice! I adapted my card system from David Lynch I think - he said 70 scenes/cards and you've got a feature length film, something I was deluding myself into thinking I could do at the time. Tried that for a bit but the films and TV drafts I curled out were never going to be good enough to be worth thinking about. I was just sinking time into them for no viable reward. That Masterclass service. Very entertaining if you're into the subjects but ultimately another thing I wasted money on trying to find happiness. It turns out happiness is literally just dopamine. You can get it anywhere. It's the assembly level language of life. Everything else is an abstraction on top of dopamine. I do wish I could have seen the one I codenamed "Dreadnought". The quick gist humanity has space travel but it is funded by filming the ships as reality TV. Naturally this meant for ratings the upper management would send ships into dangerous situations for the content rather than real need. Such a dumb idea but it was the most fleshed out haha. Dreadnought being the ship/show we follow as the audience. Recycled all the film/TV/story/music/fun cards and got back to work. I don't usually nuke idea categories like that but I can barely feed myself lmao, in what universe am I writing a film or TV show? Timewaster. Pop back down to reality dumbass, give that a go next lifetime. Kept the system for tech projects though :) Any time I am doing the idea generation part of a project I'll go through the existing ideas and shake out any new combos first. The system works for sure.