Ways To Get Ideas

**PatrickPatchCarr** · 05-07-2012

Here's one that works for me when I've hit a wall.

ideas dot bighugelabs dot com

What do you do?

**L_Houdini** · 05-08-2012

there's a million ways to get inspired, but I'll stay on topic. if i'm uninspired and i'm trying to write with help from random streams of thought/information, I open up random word dictionaries or random wikipedia page generators(there's many of both, google them). eventually i find something interesting, read, then i feel a lot more lucid and inspired. that site you listed is cool, funny thing is though, if i'm uninspired it's not writing about a topic or thing, it's looking for a good one to start with.

**Lord Noir** · 05-11-2012

Hey Patrick, When I'm lacking inspiration what I usually do is listen to music I like and often times I would write a new chord progression to an existing melody, or vice versa... write a new melody to an existing chord progression. For me ideas seem to flood during this exercise.
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**PatrickPatchCarr** · 05-11-2012

I definitely also do what both of you guys suggest. Another couple of my favorites are reading comic books for creative triggers and concept ideas and there is a practice space down the street from my apartment I will just troll around listening to the bands play and get inspired.

**BeatGenerals** · 05-11-2012

Man for whatever reason, looking at mixtape covers always helped me. Probably cause im a visual person but just seeing a dope cover and then trying to make almost theme music to go with it helps.