Sometimes we all need help getting the brain working.

I was trying to write some stories but was a bit stuck.

So I used the following method to help me come up with some ideas.

1. Write down a word in the middle of a piece of paper. I chose ‘lemon‘.
2. Then write down a number of words associated with it around it.
3. Then with each new word write down an associated word.
4. Repeat step 3 until the page is full.
5. The words around the edge are then your idea words.

This gave me eighteen words and from these eighteen words I came up with eighteen titles.  Some of the stories never got past the title but a few of them did and can be found across the site.

Starting with the title rather than the story meant I didn’t know where it would go. And most ended up nowhere near I expected.