Daily Creativity Prompts
To enter the mystery of creativity and return with ideas so fresh they boggle the mind, you may need to get devious. Tricky trackers use Muse bait.
“When it comes to the right brain,
don’t defy it, supply it.”
Karen E. Peterson
Creativity Prompts take aim at your brilliant ideas, those moving targets lurking just beneath the surface of your thoughts. When you give the brain a puzzle wacky enough to cause a short-circuit, it’ll get out of the way long enough to expose the Muse and allow you to pounce.
Creativity is drawn to foolishness, head-scratching lostness, deviations from the norm, rebellion, implausibility, detours, apparent mishaps, and extravagance, so that’s what Creativity Prompts deliver. Locating your own brilliance requires devious departures from Normal. Be prepared to tell reality to take a hike.
“Being realistic is the most commonly
traveled road to mediocrity.”
Will Smith
Each Creativity Prompt subscription delivers one very short prompt to your email in-box every day for 101 days. That’s 101 days of fresh sparks to get your creative fires going. And there are three volumes, so that’s 303 Creativity Prompts, with no repeats. Volumes 1 and 2 have previously been published on this website. Volume 3 is all new.
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Creativity Prompts – VOLUME 1
Samples:
~ Say yes to what you’ve been saying no to. ~
~ How would you solve this if you’d been raised by wolves? ~
~ What aspects of a successful outcome terrify you the most? Go there. ~
~ What power tool would a construction worker advise you to use now? ~
CAD$9.50 for 101 prompts, delivered daily via email.
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Creativity Prompts – VOLUME 2
Samples:
~ What does the solution sound like? ~
~ List your beliefs about this issue. Consider them optional. ~
~ How do you want this to look 100 years from now? ~
~ Talk it over with a tree. Out loud. ~
CAD$9.50 for 101 prompts, delivered daily via email.
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Creativity Prompts – VOLUME 3
Samples:
~ How would a blind date with this project end? ~
~ If you’re the arrow, what’s the target? ~
~ What do you need to unlearn? ~
~ What is this project allergic to? ~
~ Throw a hissy fit. ~
CAD$9.50 for 101 prompts, delivered daily via email.
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Flickr photo: Perfect Shot, by The Marque
