You're not trying to get a story yet, just listing ideas.
FOR all the boundless energy he has shown since becoming Australia's prime minister five months ago, Kevin Rudd looked tired on April 20th, as he received a document listing ideas for the country's future.
When I was younger," Schnabel recalls, "I'd walk around taking notes of what I was going to do – listing ideas because these things are like mussels that haven't glommed on to a rock yet.
Phase 2; generation of initial codes, involved listing ideas about what was interesting about the data and organising data into meaningful groups to form codes. Phase 3; search for themes, involved sorting codes into meaningful groups to form potential sub-themes.
Inspiration may not hit you like lightning, and could require a few weeks or months of listing ideas before your epiphany strikes.
Try imagining the Story of Cinderella as told from a different character (perhaps a cockroach that she was sweeping up in Scene 1?) Edward de Bono's Thinking Hats require you to weigh up a proposal from different angles by first listing ideas within a one-minute time limit without discussion.
