This method will give you the barest nugget of an idea and
it will be up to you to really fill it out to its greatest potential. But I find
I often do my best creative work under these very conditions. Select a noun.
You can pick one out you like or find some random method of producing one. For
instance, School or Serial-Killer. Then imagine there is a blank either before
or after the noun and fill it. It’s sort of like playing the old television
game show . . . Match Game.
Example: [Blank] School or Serial Killer [Blank] can turn
into Bully School
Bubba’s School for Underprivileged Bullies -
It isn’t Chuck’s fault that he’s bigger and stronger than
everyone else. Or that he sometimes accidentally knocks over the other students
while he’s daydreaming about becoming the first planetary explorer. So he was
happy when his parents enrolled him in the strangely-named Bubba’s School for
Underprivileged Bullies. But that all changes when he finds out he’s the
smallest kid in the school and that most of the other children act in a
decidedly alien manner. He’s forced to form an alliance with the most famous
bully in the entire state in order to escape from the school. Chuck isn’t sure
which is worse . . . an alien invasion of Earth or spending time with Darlene
Pimpleton.
