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A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative

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6 Reddit comments about A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative:

u/fletcherkildren · 2 pointsr/JudgeMyArt

I've found this book to be really helpful

u/GMcrates · 2 pointsr/rpg

Great book to help with creativity (which in turn I think helps with improvisation) is A Whack on the Side of the Head

And now for my (derived from said book) suggestion:

LIMITS

Perfect example: playing FAE (Fate Accelerated Edition) last night for the first time. The scene is a dining room on a cruise ship and I start describing the bar area "Yeah there's a haze of ..." I was about to say smoke. The problem? I had previously established this world had limits on combustibles! How do you have a decadent smoking habit when you can't burn things?

SO what happened was this limit forced me off in another direction: fog. "So there's a haze of fog up near the bar".

What the hell did this mean? I had no idea. But what happened next was the beauty of all of this: the players rolled with it. "Fog?" they said? "Yeah! You see a guy holding a brass & crystal pipe and you can see some alchemical mixture he's puffing on. He breathes out some vapor afterwords." BOOM! Steampunk vaping.

Limits can help you break through mental blocks because they can do two things: force you away from your instinctual reactions (like a bunch of aristocrats at the bar smoking cigars & drinking brandy jumping into my mind first thing), and eliminating choices which helps focus you on finding a new solution (okay, nobody can be smoking cigars and there's still a haze up there... can't be a hooka or a bong... hm. Lots of alchemy. Alchemical pipes? ALCHEMICAL PIPES!)

u/redditaccountisgo · 1 pointr/IWantToLearn

I recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Whack-Side-Head-More-Creative/dp/0446404667

It's excellent.

u/honeybeedreams · 1 pointr/suggestmeabook

a whack on the side of the head

u/Eli_Truax · 1 pointr/Jung

There was a book in the 70's "A Whack on the Side of the Head"

u/naonpikachu · -1 pointsr/pokemongo

I can’t think for you, since I don’t know your complete situation.

We’re here throwing out ideas which you can use to help you think alternative ideas to fit your situation.

Here’s a book that helped me start thinking outside the box:

A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative https://www.amazon.com/dp/0446404667/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_A9IhDbN8PZDA5