More Inspiration Ideas

I read an interesting idea for writer's block today. Pull a book off your shelf and using a pin, open the book and stick a word with the pin. No peeking! Do this again. You now have two words to play with. See where those words take you.

Write a few sentences using these words. I've also heard there are web sites that will supply random word combinations to spur the imagination. The combinations might be bizarre at times, but that could be very good.

There are so many options available to writers suffering from writer's block. Now, don't shut this out...Poetry.com still does their magnetic poetry "poetry in motion" contest. I'm not suggesting that you actually participate in the contest. I'm suggesting that you go to the site and use their resources to get your juices flowing. If you come up with something good, write it down or type it out and then abort the operation. We don't want to contribute to their scam. I see no harm is using some of their resources though.

I still like the idea of taking a paragraph from a magazine and using those words as magnets. I know there are some advertisements that have some substantial copy. Can you imagine using the copy from a viagra advertisement to write a poem? I can see it now.

Go borrow some words and use them to write. And, have fun with it.