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Every day we have ideas. Some of them are lousy. Some are great. How do you know unless you write it?

This space is aimed at having you get in the habit of jotting down ideas that come to you -- something you heard, something that crept on you, something that came to you when you were reading or running or riding in a car or seeing someone walking in the street, or something, something that came to you in a flash of atonishing electric brilliance that lights up your entire brain and you cannot, simply cannot, wait another moment before you scribble it down.

Because you will forget. Trust me.

So here's a place to jot them down. From anywhere -- especially -- your smartphone, if you're so lucky. Then, when the spirit moves you, glance back through some of those ideas and see what you can make of one.

And that's what the ideaboard is all about. -- gg

Ideaboard

what if you were invisible. not literally, but in the way that no one really saw you, even though you were there. you were so easily forgotten....what would you do?
09/22/2017 - 8:52pm
Idea for generating ideas:
Write as many as fast as you can in a minute or two
(okay, not the most original idea).

A bunch of ravens fly into town and devour everyone on the streets.
Jellyfish are becoming a popular dish
Kites are actually animals tied to strings which battle each other in flight
A guy with perpetual deja vu
Jeans start cutting off your blood supply so that they can eat your legs
Deodorant is a new condiment— a lifehack that everyone now uses.
09/12/2017 - 8:51pm
Sand is migrating to the floors of public places
Red is now banned
Political correctness is a law
Elephants are the new mode of transportation
Eyeballs are given as gifts
Personalities, not just organs, are donated after death
Flashlights are used to attract moths and then sell them
There is no school
Watermelons are bred to be the size of horses.
Writing cafe: words served, words charged.

Probably 90% crap... but you never know. (I did use that last one a couple years ago).
Idea for idea for idea? Going through old writing. A lot of it you won't even remember... at all. Good for inspiration/laughs, especially if you share it.
09/12/2017 - 8:53pm
    The personalities and organs one is really interesting. I bet it could be fleshed out into something kind of disturbing, but fascinating.
    09/19/2017 - 6:02pm
      ^^^i agree
      09/22/2017 - 8:52pm
        One day, out of the blue, you get a call from a stranger asking for your help. The person gives you an address and tells you to come quickly before hanging up. What happens next?
        07/19/2017 - 2:35pm
        You are traveling by yourself on the moorland when you come across an old merry go round. Out of curiosity, you start asking around in the town you are staying in about it. What happens?
        07/19/2017 - 2:33pm
        You are traveling on a road with a blind girl, an old man, a former military woman, and a dog. How did you end up together? What happened? Where are you going, and why?
        07/19/2017 - 2:12pm
        You are out biking in the countryside when it starts to rain. In seconds you are swept up in a flood and lose conciousness. When you wake, you are lying in a straw bed in a barn with some horses and no bike. A woman walks in a tells you that the flood swept you halfway across the country, miraculously without drowning. You tell her you have to get home. What happens?
        07/19/2017 - 2:07pm
        You are working as a nurse/assistant in a hospital. You work there everyday, and know a lot of the patients, but there is more to them then meets the eye. What happens?
        07/19/2017 - 2:00pm
        You have run away from home and are on a train with no destination in mind. What happens?
        07/19/2017 - 1:56pm
        You have a hundred days to live. Where do you go? Who do you meet?
        07/19/2017 - 1:55pm
        If you expect to be disappointed then your expectations will only be fulfilled when you're disappointed. Except you're still disappointed. If something turns out better than you expected then it's not living up to your expectation of disappointment so it disappoints you. So either way, you're going to be disappointed. Unless you stop expecting to be disappointed. Then you'll only be disappointed half the time.
        06/22/2017 - 2:35pm