I am giving away 1000 Free Ideas. Find out how this works and ask me a question!
Anonymous writes: Help with Big Idea
Dear Anonymous: That question is very, very vague. But sometime a sheer lack of direction inspires:
- Make the idea even bigger. That way it will be easier to see from a distance.
- Don’t focus on the size of the idea. Start small and then grow it over time. Take a long term approach, like bristlecone pine trees or China.
- I see black-and-white silent movie footage of a woman from the 20′s silently and obviously begging for assistance by waving her arms in a slightly sped up way while sighing heavily. Jump cut to a black screen with white type that reads, “WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA?” Jump cut to a big man in loose pants, suspenders, bowler hat waving a cane around while smoking a fat cigar. Lots of sped up running and falling ensues.
- Photo of a store window with a sign that reads “Help Wanted With Big Idea” written in Trade Gothic. In smaller, cheesy Brush Script it reads, “inquire within”.
- craigslist.org
- elance.com
- Use the official The Directors Bureau iPhone app: The Idea Generator (http://www.thedirectorsbureau.com/apps/idea_generator.php)
- Ask a 4 year old for an idea. They don’t seem to have any filters to speak of. Film the results. Post on YouTube. Become internet famous.
- Ever heard of The Creative Method and Systems? (http://www.slideshare.net/jted/the-creative-method-v2)
- Two people are trying to manoever a Big Idea up a set of narrow apartment stairs. It is a (painted?) freeze frame, Norman Rockwell style, and there are all sorts of humourous disaster set ups: one of the movers has an untied shoe. There is a cat under the rised foot of the other mover. The rope holding the words Big and Idea together looks frayed. Etc etc.
Out of 1000 Free Ideas, there are now 990 left.
