I’m on a quest to be more creative, have more spontaneous ideas and lightning bolt moments. As I’ve focused on my writing this last year, I’ve been craving a way to put myself in a writing trance. I want to at will go to the place where I can close my eyes and punch out a story in a night without analyzing the intersection of character plot and story plot and whatnot. My best stories are the ones written while I’m lying on the floor with my head on the ground after a bottle of wine, half asleep, with the words spilling out and no way to stop them-but how do I get there without bottles of wine and late night  insomnia?

I’m currently inspired by Robert Olen Butler’s From Where you Dream and Frans Johansson’s talk at the CLO conference. I’m also remembering how Drawing From the Right Side of the Brain changed the way I see the world, and I really want to read Anthony Alvarado’s D.I.Y. Magic, but its currently sold out.

In an attempt to find something easy and quick to spur my creative juices. I’ve decided to have more random encounters.

Every day I’m going to try to do something I wouldn’t normally do and make that decision on instinct and ’cause I feel like it’ rather than logic. It may be as simple as where I go to lunch, who I talk to, or the route I take home. Not sure what would be more difficult randomness, but I’m sure I’ll get there eventually.