Chapter 4: Generating Ideas

At the end of each chapter of Greenlit you’ll find a list of useful exercises, links and useful resources. Here are some of them:

Likemind - a monthly breakfast meeting for creative people, usually held on the third Friday of every month in approximately 50 locations around the world.

Lexis Nexis - subscription news service with more than 4,000 sources. You can get free access to selected front page news stories, US military press releases, news programme transcripts, missing person information, among other things.

TV Mole: Ideas Generator - news stories, trends, exhibitions and new books are uploaded five times a week and categorized into art; books; business, documentary; history; lifestyle; multiplatform; natural history; reality; religion; science; technology innovations and videos. Click on the category list on the right side of the page to go to a specific category where you’ll find dozens of short articles to help kick start your ideas.

Wikipedia list of historical anniversaries

Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – drawing on more than one hundred interviews with creative people this book muses on the nature of the creative process.

The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life by Twyla Tharp – an inspiring book by an acclaimed choreographer who explains her creative process and how to make creativity part of your daily life.