I Didn't Know I Had It In Me - Creative Exercise 6

 Introduction

    I am now in week 6 of writing blog posts. This journey has been interesting and continues to be interesting. I have made quite a bit of growth, and it has only been a small amount of time. For this week’s creative exercise I chose, I Didn’t Know I Had It In Me. This exercise is also in the book Caffeine For The Creative Mind 250 Exercises To Wake Up Your Brain by Stefan Mumaw and Wendy Lee Oldfield. I have grown to really like the exercises in this book and the creative energy that was put into making it.

I Didn’t Know I Had It In Me

    As I was reading through some of the exercises in the book, I was trying to decide between about 5, but when I saw this one, I knew that it was the one. The title spoke loudly and directly AT ME!

    This exercise was constructed to work on generating ideas. It helps when you are stuck and you cannot think of anything else, at the moment. The exercise instructs you to look around your environment and pick a random noun. It states that the more random the noun, the better the exercise will be. Next, you grab a piece of paper and write that noun at the top. The hard part is about to be announced…! You have to come up with 50 words that you think of when you see this word. GO!

The word I chose is…

FAN

And this is my list of 50 words!

Cool            Dry           Circulate           Kitchen           Air           Outside           Gym           Construction           Home Depot          Sleeping           Noise           Electric           Extension Cord           Baby           Heat           Mister           Solar Powered           Portability           Computer           Engine           Porch           Patio           Force           Hair Dryer

Living Area          Cheap           Theme Parks           Lights          Blades           Speed           Direction           Distance           Summertime           Oscillate           Air Conditioner           Dust           Walmart           Ceiling           Remote           Stand           Light Bulbs           Fuses           Batteries           Outlet           Blow           Photo Shoot           Loud           Silent

Conclusion

    I have come to LOVE doing my creative exercises. I am such a creative person/artist to the core. I can be logical, but I love spontaneity. This was a rather simple exercise, but the more that I brainstormed, the more ideas I came up with. At some points, they went in totally different directions. With one simple noun, 50 more ideas came about. I am sure that if I kept going, I would come up with some interesting out-of-the-box ideas. Who would have thought they would all stem from the word FAN?