Re: What do YOU do when creativity dries up?

["Stephen Goodman" <spgoodman@earthlight.net>]

Heh, one thinks of the old joke card saying "How do you keep an idiot busy? 
(turn over card)", on both sides... :)  Sorry.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Per Boysen
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 5:13 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: What do YOU do when creativity dries up?

Each one of them would chose to do "something else"
...which means all cards are the same.

p:-)




On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Phil Clevenger <phil.clevenger@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> I have a set of index cards I maintain and turn to when things dry up...
>
> Each card contains one entry;
>
> What would Brian Wilson do?
>
> What would Joni MItchell do?
>
> What would Glen Campbell do?
>
> What would Prince do?
>
> What would Gang of Four do?
>
> and so on.
>
> I've never had to draw a second card... and there has never been a case
> where the card and the current project were unable to find some point of
> meaningful engagement... nor has the result ever been anywhere close to
> detectable vis a vis the inspirational source taken from the card. And 
> it's
> very often shed new light on what seems to be an intractable situation :)
>
> It's been a wonderful tool for me... highly recommended :)
>
> Phil :)