Idea Processor Gifts

'It's our new assembly line. When the person at the end of the line has an idea, he puts it on the conveyor belt, and as it passes each of us, we mull it over and try to add to it.'

"Good" "Bad" "Work on it" "Keep working - maybe it's not as bad as you think it is" "Put it to a committee" "Give up" "Make it worse" "Make it better" "Still a bad idea" "Overthink it" "Throw yourself into a pit of wild badgers" "Throw it away" "Call it done" "Sigh."

"Ah, ha! The universe IS expanding! I can't find my glasses anywhere!"

'Truth is fine, but I really need marketable ideas.'

Patent Attorney (invisible man)

The dangerous world of the armchair thinker

"I believe I can create a great presentation if I can only tap into my cognitive dissonance."

Innovation tray covered in ivy.

Should not have put that suggestion in the suggestion box.'

' A new idea '

"Your editor called again to see if the well was still dry."

Assertiveness

Big Bang Boulevard

"People were steal his ideas"

And elevator with 'up', 'down', and 'pitches' buttons

"This is genius, Ted. We can't use it. Nobody will believe I thought of it."

Thought Cloud

"What's the big idea?"

"It's such a nice day. Why don't you go outside and plagiarize something?"

'I'm exhausted from too much enlightened skepticism, fresh perceptive thinking, intellectual challenges and independent ideas. What I need is some simple cliche living!'

"I'd let you in, but I'm not sure I'm all here today"

"Gotta cut back on my binge thinking."

'I just invented business!'

'This week's column is going to be about Writer's Block, and it's...'

Creative Juices

Inspiration

"The idea at 3 am. The idea at 7 am."

'I've invented copyright.'

Brain Exercise Video: "Okay, think...and stop...and think, and stop! Stay with me now! Think harder! Feel that burn!"

Chasing the one big idea

Writer Will Work For One Good Plot Idea

"I'm just sitting here waiting for an idea who's time has come...but apparently it's running late."

' . . . Our 'idea man' has saved us a lot of money . . .'

"The magical time of night when the artist awakes, not with any idea, but with the murky recollection of an idea from the previous day that was not written down and is now lost forever."