Tips and tricks for Ideation and smashing writers block!
Channel: Salgood Sam
Date: 2020-07-16

Hey, this is a clip for my Making Comics students, but thought it was probably useful stuff to point enthusiastically here...  and, blogger wouldn't let me. 

Here's the links I referenced in the clip! 

Lettres à Montréal: Fabuleux bouquin de Montréal - Montreal Comic Arts Fables
https://www.fbdm-mcaf.ca/en/projects/mcaf-press/
https://www.ulule.com/lettres-a-montreal/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCBmkc2W-ViAOCd4R7edp3Q

Writing the Unthinkable with Lynda Barry is a great exercise for getting going. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjofUnKK20M

'Oblique Strategies: Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas' is a card-based method for promoting creativity jointly created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, you can use a site based version of them here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies
http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html

I've become fond of Story Cubes and have several sets of Rory's Story Cubes [app-app] i'll use in the class. But again you can use app based versions for free with a basic set of virtual dice. 
https://www.storycubes.com/
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rorys-story-cubes/id342808551
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thecreativityhub.RSC

Story Dice - Story telling
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zuidsoft.storystones&hl=en_CA
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/story-dice-story-telling/id1105668334

Story Dice
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.developer.cachucha.storydice&hl=en_CA

Story Dice - ideas for writers 
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/story-dice-ideas-for-writers/id525351988

Story Dice - Human Rights
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/story-dice-human-rights/id1446273281
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hu.indea.storydice.humanrights&hl=en_CA

Roll A Story - Guide your imagination
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rafalzawadzki.rollastory&hl=en_CA

Help support my work by pledging a buck or two a month on Patreon!
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Also i now have art classes online. been teaching for 6 years in montreal, but my school is making the switch to online due to the pandemic. Sign up for our classes from anywhere with a good connection here! 
https://synstudio.ca/
https://synstudio.ca/courses/

Syn is a great school, we've got a large team of teachers who as a rule have profesional experience in their fields. 
https://synstudio.ca/instructors/

And we're making the switch to online teaching under the current shutdown, and plan to continue it even once regular classes can resume.  

And, i have a student patron class on patreon too.
https://www.patreon.com/salgood

You can check out a lot of public/free posts featuring work from Mind Engine | Ignition Sequence here on patreon.
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