What Journaling Activities Do You Recommend for Creativity?  | |  I was reading a post by a friend from China who likes to read Chinese short stories, and I started thinking about what a Chinese short story would look like.
This in turn, started a thought about crossing into another genre as a journal-writing tool for stimulating creative thought.
And this in turn brought to mind the question: What sorts of similar (or dissimilar) journal activities do other writers use to stimulate creative thoughts?
So...
Do you like the idea of "crossing over" into a genre or a culture that differs from your own or the genre in which you are comfortable writing?
Or...
Do you have any great creativity stimulating journal activities that you regularly use (or fall back on when you need to get the juices flowing)?
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| | | | | | | | 1.  movicont (405) | 3 months ago |  Well, sometimes I think it's easier just to write random words down, which will in turn inspire you to write more related to those words. For instance, I might write: wood, table, clock and then think of a boy who is making a wooden clock for his friend as a token of their friendship. Then I might write about how his friend found the token to be extremely sappy, condemned him, and turned away, leaving the boy angered at the sudden rejection.
Random words, for some reason, can make me think up the weirdest ideas.
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 highlyclever (372) | 3 months ago | There's a technical term for this... brainstorming? I can't remember off-hand. It's an interesting idea, and if it works for you... great!
The story line is interesting... It makes me think of a movie preview that I recently saw for a movie that started out light and dreamy (about a perfumer) that suddenly turned dark and scary. It's an interesting thought and something (if nothing else) for practice.
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