Maybe they’ll help you, maybe they won’t.
This is just what works for me and has to do with my particular weaknesses. I’ve added context so you know where my brain is when I look at them, but this isn’t advice. And remembering them helps me move forward when I get stuck. It’s a handy cheat sheet of my blind spots. I started compiling these little phrases a while ago and I’m up to 15 at the moment. It’s still reads like bumper sticker advice, but the important thing is context. Things I always try to remember, but inevitably forget when I get stuck. What has worked, though, has been reminders. Or, more likely, I just need something a little more concrete because I’m an idiot. Possibly because the deck is really aimed at musicians. “Disconnect From Desire” or “Cascades” has never really done much for me. Most times Oblique Strategies is a little too oblique for me. Things that you might need to unpack a little to really get a feel for what they’re trying to say. Cryptic ones like “Honour thy error as a hidden intention” and “Use an old idea”. The cards themselves are hard to come by these days, but you can see what was on them over at this site, which has an ever increasing list of these little phrases.
The point is that it give you something to help guide your problem solving. It was a deck of cards containing a phrase or a word on each designed to help inspire the user to look at a problem in a slightly different way. SHUT UP DON’T JUDGE ME.īack in the Seventies musician Brian Eno and artist Peter Schmidt came up with this thing called Oblique Strategies that was designed to help artists when they get blocked. Stephen is here today - well, he’s here because he has incriminating photos and this is what it takes. Today’s guest post is by esteemed urban fantasy slash crime writer, Stephen Blackmoore, who wrote the whip-cracking Dead Things last year (one of my favorites), and who will actually be carrying the Gods & Monsters mantled, continuing the series put forth in my own Gods & Monsters: Unclean Spirits.
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