5 Mind-Freeing Strategies Guaranteed to Generate Great Creative Ideas

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How do you generate great creative ideas when you're faced with the abject terror of the blank page?! Here are my tried-and-tested strategies for composing music and beyond. These are the methods of idea generation I've actually done. They all work. The order doesn't matter. Not a composer? They'll work great in any line of …

2017 – The Year of Getting Out Of My Comfort Zone

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I think my theme for 2017 might have been 'getting out of my comfort zone'. I said YES to bunch of opportunities I perhaps wouldn't normally have gone for. Sometimes it worked really well for me, sometimes it... didn't quite turn out as I'd hoped. I learned a LOT about how, why and when to 'get out' of said 'comfort zone' for maximum value...

It Happened Here and Writing for the Sake Of It

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It Happened Here is a Slung Low audio/installation adventure set in Holbeck, Leeds, which opened in August 2016.  It Happened Here was a surprisingly freeing project to work on; usually my work is underscoring dialogue or action, either as live theatre or onscreen, and synchronisation with these events is a high priority - synchronisation of tone, emotion, pace, volume and …