Friday, September 11, 2009

Tie-dye the day...and take it with you

This post is about word-storms and creativity.

The other day I was over at bilbified where Kristine was wondering just how creative she was (one of those self-doubting moments I guess because she clearly is creative) and that started me thinking about creativity...then I wandered over to notes from me to [me] where Robin was in the middle of a Californian word-storm...what's a word-storm you ask?...well you'll have to go to her blog to answer that one...anyway, there she was with all these words blowing around, and she took the words, taped them onto a page and arranged them into poems...I really like this idea...I think it would make a great game for kids to make a random list of words or phrases and then try to make poems out of them...you can end up with really unusual combinations of things that you never would have thought of...I know that some people are going to think that if there's some random element you'll just get nonsense, but I don't think it works out like that because such a big part of creative thinking is trying to unlearn the habit of always linking things up in predicable clichéd ways...this just cuts through all that...anyway here's coloured buttons' contribution using Robin's word list:

Tie-dye the day...and take it with you.
Posted by trixi at 4:54 PM

4 comments:

  1. Totally awesome. Thanks for the link!
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  2. Okay, I have to admit, I popped over here to your blog clear from Washington State...way up in the corner by Canada, because I love your name...then I loved your blog, then I love you posting. You may enjoy visiting me. I am Jacqueline from Once Upon a Fairyland, my childhood home. Do you have anymore room for a new blog friend? Be sure to turn up my music, you'll smile!
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  3. Excellent creative ideas, and now I want to tie dye!
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  4. Hi Trixi,

    Yes, blogging has become an interesting way for me to explore how I work.

    This poem generator reminds me of a literacy activity. The reader writes a lengthy stream of conscious letter to one of the main characters then reads back through it and highlights words or phrases that best capture the sentiment. These words or phrases then get ordered into a poem.
    Actually perhaps I should do that to condense some of my very long and tedious blogs. My last blog would simply be
    time on my hand
    sticking out
    obviously complete
    flexibility her own
    Yes that sums me up! Good night!
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