I have a list of rules on how to generate creativity in writing at my blog Cosmos Blogmos.

I will now share a few here:

(1) start your story off with an implausible line, then end that first paragraph a million miles from where it began: “When they amputated my head, I thought I’d have trouble meeting women, but, boy, was I wrong!”

(2) use exclamation point (just one) whenever it seems natural to be excited about a statement, but don’t use them ever in sales writing, it will seem like hyperbole.

(3) never use the same word (aside from “the”, “a”, etc.) twice in an essay or story: eat, devour, consume, chow down, sink my teeth into, etc.

(4) keep a dictionary handy and deliberately use strange words no one understands, but use indirect definition, use the context to clarify beyond a shadow of a doubt what that word means.

I have many more guidelines that are very uncommon, but my geek neck is killing me, so go I must.

ta ta dee ay

it’s a it dat