A Technique for Producing Ideas

A writer can write 10,000 pages, but if it is without purpose or not based on an idea, then it will fall flat. So what is a writer to do when the ideas don’t seem to come? Put the pen to paper and write until your knuckles are blue? What if that doesn’t work? James Webb Young has written a marvelous, short book to help with this process. Below I have outlined the key points to help you get started.

James Webb Young’s A Technique for Producing Ideas.

1. Gather materials—specific and general knowledge.
2. Work over these materials in your mind.
3. Incubate the thoughts subconsciously
4. The Birth of the idea
5. Final shaping and developing of the idea to practical usefulness