Many good ideas start as two ideas that met. A pairing puts two ideas from your archive side by side and asks what happens between them. It takes about ten minutes, and it works well with ideas from different themes.
Done when the pairing is logged in Pairings with a line under What came of it, even if the line is nothing yet.
How to pair
- Choose two ideas. Pick from different themes, or one you love and one you have nearly forgotten.
- Choose a prompt from the list below.
- Write for ten minutes, in fragments, without judging.
- Log it in Pairings: the two ideas under Ideas, the prompt and what came of it.
- If something new appeared, add it to Ideas as a Spark, link it to both and tick Became an idea.
The prompts
Where they meet
Same world
Swap the contexts
Use the tension
Grow them together
One piece
Strip to the core
Make the case