I enjoy spending at least one hour every few days without distractions and with only a pen and paper to jot down any ideas. This downtime creates space for creativity to brew or simply to pay attention to the world around me.
Absolutely! There’s something about being around water that reinvigorates my creative juices
well i consume different content than take a nap, when i wake up i just lie there and let my mind wander and suddenly there is eureka moment for me
I read and watch things, play music or just generally distract myself, and an idea does come to me. Sometimes I actually brainstorm and when I start vetting the ideas, I can be surprised that there are ones I actually like among them.
I don’t think I ever run out of ideas that sometimes it can feel a little overwhelming. The challenge is turning them into reality. I like to surround myself with nature because it helps me clear my mind. I also like to consume a form of media from artists that I resonate with.
I get most of my ideas while I’m carried away with other activities. I usually don’t write them down with the hopes that I’d remember them later. I usually don’t. I’m glad that I’ve now learnt to write them down whenever they come. Thanks, Hubspot.
Mood boarding is definitely an important aspect of my initial ideation process as it helps me make my ideas in mind closer to what I envision for them to look like in actuality. Just like what Ernest Hemingway said, “The first draft of anything is garbage,” and so I always practice being open to steering in different directions throughout my creative process if any other concept that pops up along the way seems to sound better than what I initially planned on doing. Sometimes the greatest works can come from spineless endeavors and ultimately, a creative process is always a journey.
Honestly for me it’s just watching what’s actually happening around campus — random conversations, things my friends say, situations that happen during exams or hostel life. Half my scripts start from something dumb that actually happened to me or Abhishek. I also scroll through comments on my own reels sometimes, since people literally tell you what they relate to.
To make this repeatable — I keep a running notes list on my phone where I dump every random idea the second it comes, instead of trying to “sit down and think of ideas” later (that never works). Then once a week I go through that list with my friends before we shoot and pick 2-3 that actually have potential, add a quick angle/twist to each, and that becomes the next batch of scripts. Keeping it a shared list means even my collaborators can drop ideas in whenever something happens to them too — it’s not just on me to come up with everything.
When I’m trying to come up with new ideas, I try to think about things I’ve done in the past and how I might be able to expand upon them or connect them to things that I could be able to create something new from. One way I could implement this into a framework would be to “Assess possible ideas arising from connections to outdated/older material.”
**1. Build a “voice of customer” swipe file** — a running doc where I collect raw quotes, complaints, and phrases from reviews/forums/social comments for each niche (SaaS, FinTech, automation tools). Update it before every new project.
**2. Tag by pain point, not just topic** — organize the swipe file by the *problem* being described, so I can quickly pull relevant language when a new brief comes in.
**3. Turn one quote into three angles** — for any strong customer phrase I find, force myself to write three different headline/hook variations from it, so idea generation isn’t a one-shot guess.
**4. Share the swipe file with collaborators** — if I’m working with a team or another writer, this becomes a shared resource instead of something locked in my head, making it easier for others to jump in and stay consistent with the customer’s real voice.
I can’t control ideas, they can come up at every time. While I’m going for a walk, while I’m sleeping, or simply by watching a simple or suggestive picture. It often happens ideas come up to my mind while listening to music or watching a movie. The problem is that I have never developed the right tools to transform these ideas into something concrete and lasting, then I read and read my ideas again, they lose their first spark, so I quit. I would like to train my brain not to do it, but I have a really busy day and really little time to write. I am concerned about really having the possibility to turn writing into a real job, but I want to try it!
(I am sorry for the off topic, I wanted to share my opinion with you!)
tend to overload my head with ideas at first, however researching the topic, or watching videos related to what I am thinking about,
Less is more. Establishing constraints and setting boundaries allow me to be more creative.
I most times get stoke of ideas after gathering some many resources at one time. I tend to take a time of to listing to some music while reflecting accumulated ideas i have gathered on that particular subject matter.
I get ideas from studying of the market trend and chain demand of a product. Use this empirical facts to make a short videos, animated skits adverts on the social media space to convince the general public and further drive interest.
My content creation journey is currently in the developing stage. Therefore, I don’t follow any complicated systems. More like I am unpracticed for those. My creation system is simple. I sit with a pen and a notebook and write my ideas. Then I have another notebook which I use to create timelines. I cut off the ideas I later on think won’t work. Then take the final ideas, decide the publishing format and decide their posting dates. That’s my system for now.
The first and the foremost important thing for me to work on any idea is to research on that topic as much as possible… that I try to bring different pieces of my ideas together and work on it . So consuming more and more content is a must for me .