Stuck in a Creative Rut? Time to Storm

I recently completed a very worthwhile project called the RPM Challenge, which threw down an interesting gauntlet to musicians – compose and record an entire album in 28 days (specifically, the month of February). Without a doubt, my productivity for this month was way above what it would have been otherwise, and it also provoked me into altering my approach to songwriting and music composition.

I came across another resource today which may be helpful for those who are suffering from writer’s block, or would like to explore alternative ways of developing ideas… Martin Leith’s Idea Generation Methods website. This site documents every idea generation technique he has encountered over the years, ranging from brainstorming to pink bubble and the creative whack pack. Strangely enough, he doesn’t seem to have the oblique strategies developed by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt in there, but no compilation would really be complete without an omission or two…