{"id":26,"date":"2008-06-26T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifewithouttelevision.wordpress.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2008-06-26T18:00:52","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T18:00:52","slug":"7-questions-to-stimulate-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/2008\/06\/7-questions-to-stimulate-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"7 questions to stimulate creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re creating something new, something from scratch, it&#8217;s sometimes hard to know what direction to go in. I&#8217;m definitely the kind of guy who gets stuck for half a day choosing a font for three lines of text. Should that be <em>italic<\/em> or <strong>bold<\/strong>? And so on.<\/p>\n<p>But there are things that I find myself saying (not always aloud) to keep myself from being mediocre. The next time you seem to have everything in place but don&#8217;t feel satisfied, try one of these:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It would be amazing if&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>What is one step beyond the norm? What is ten steps beyond?<\/li>\n<li>What is the opposite of what everybody else is doing?<\/li>\n<li>What will make people stop and think?<\/li>\n<li>What can I take away? What is barely sufficient?<\/li>\n<li>Where can I exaggerate? How big can I make the focus before it becomes ridiculous?<\/li>\n<li>What if it <em>was <\/em>ridiculous?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re creating something new, something from scratch, it&#8217;s sometimes hard to know what direction to go in. I&#8217;m definitely the kind of guy who gets stuck for half a day choosing a font for three lines of text. Should that be italic or bold? And so on. But there are things that I find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}