Creative Techniques: Mixology

1. Metaphor, Simile, Analogy : Creative possibilities are explored by using comparisons with similar things.
2. Lateral Displacement : A displacement from the original ideas - e.g. Reality, but untested - provides new creative possibilities.
3. Chains : Each chain begins with a specific idea and extends out into a linked series of creative general ideas.
4. Lens Illumination : Creativity through the construction of different viewpoints of a situation or incident.
5. Link-Ups : Different but correlated ideas are brought together to generate new creative possibilities.
6. Laddering : Ladder-rungs of connections lead off into new creative possibilities.
7. Cascades : Consecutive, more precise redefinition of the starting ideas creates closely-linked creative possibilities.
8. Object Concepts : Creative ideas from concepts associated with an object.
9. Switchblades : An extreme sideways glance provokes a fundamental change-of-position and generates highly-creative ideas.
10. Making Senses : Each of the six sense provides a different point-of-departure from which creative themes can develop.
11. Randomise : Random words and phrases provide potential solutions for the creative development of a specific idea.
12. Organics : Concepts associated with organic objects give rise to a different character of creative idea.
13. Character Sketching : The perspective of different characters the base for the development of creative work.
14. Hook-Ups : Unrelated or contrasting ideas forced together lead to the development of highly creative work.
15. Perimeters : Words that define the perimeter of a specific idea are changed successively and methodically.
16. Redefinitions : Re-conceiving, reimagining or rethinking the individual ingredients produces new creative possibilities.

Creative Techniques: Cultivation

1. 5W1H : Working from the specific ideas and asking the questions Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?.
2. IWWM : Asking different questions of the specific ideas being explored in the form of IWWM.
3. Facets : Examining detail linked to different elements of the narrative.
4. Why? Why? Why? : Working from the specific ideas and asking and answering the question why? to find the possibilities.
5. Springboards : The use of one a series of set phrases that are likely prompt the free writing or design of a creative option.
6. Dry Roasting : A focus on the essential ingredients of a creative work produces refined points-of-departure.
7. Forward Vision : Visioning the different ways a creative work could develop from the prescribed specific ideas.
8. So What? : Beginning from a specific idea - i.e. a state or action to be explored - the question 'So What?' is posed repeatedly.

Creative Techniques: Visual

1. PicMix : Forced combinations of pictures to create new creative starting points.
2. Picture Chains : Using your mindseye to picture steps that move the visual narrative forward.
3. Brain Sketching : Sketching an impression each time an object enters your mindseye.
4. Graphic Glanside : Develping the narrative through the use of visual creative techniques.

Creative Techniques: Additional

1. Bonus Pack : The Bonus Pack contains additional techiques that offer some different approaches.
2. CAMERA : Combine, Arrange, Modify, Eliminate, Reverse, Adapt.
3. Aliens : A lens through which creative possibilities are generated from an extreme or divorced view-point.
4. Reversals : Reversing ideas, assumptions, beliefs, events to produce a new direction for a creative work.
5. Lenses : New creative possibilities from looking at a starting idea from a particular view-point, emotion, attitude etc.
6. Solutions Before Problems : Working backwards from the desired outcome produces new pathways.
7. Addition & Subtraction : A qualifying word or statement is added to or subtracted a specific idea.
8. Mind Maps : The classic technique of listing and interconnecting the web of ideas that structure a creative work.
9. Working Through Time : The plot of a creative work is envisioned over a period of one hour, one day, one week, etc.
10. Extreme Analogies : Highly creative ideas are generated from possibilities that are distant from the original idea.
11. Obstacles : The search for solutions to an imagined obstacle offers new directions for a creative work to tackle.
12. Bar Stool : The contrary 'view-from-the-barstool' is brought into the creative mix.
13. Just Write : Allowing your thoughts to flow as the pen advances.
14. Avenues : The exploration of a place, an idea, a situation, a scenario.
15. Focal Point : Defining the point from which the plot and the narrative are propelled forward.
16. What If? : Exploring what would have/could have happened in altered circumstances.

Creative Techniques: Managing

1. Essential Glanside : A framework with which Glanside Thinking Techniques can be harnessed.
2. Scaffolding : Generating creative ideas through applying a series of creative techniques to the opening specific ideas.
3. Material Fusion : A process of scanning, collecting and development ideas from multiple external sources.
4. Six Thinking Hats : A technique that can be used to manage any creative thinking process.

Creative Work

1. The story of The Tailor illustrates the use of Glanside Creative Techniques.
2. The development of the story of COLOUR was managed using Glanside Creative Management.

Creative Techniques: All Techniques