Idea Generating [PMC]

All of you, or at least the majority anyway, know that sometimes ideas just cannot get into your mind. There is a key to that blocked thought door but you misplaced it, and that's a problem. I myself, from time to time, run out of ideas, whether it be skinning or perhaps projects!

The best way to find that key is not to retrace your steps, but instead think. I am not implying you cannot think, I'm implying you must think harder. Now then, there are many ways to come across ideas, here's a nice list of what will hand over this metaphorical key into your hands.

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Taking Inspiration:
There are a lot of incredible modders, skinners, artists and builders all around the site. Content quality can vary, but usually there will be a special something that you adore. By looking at different content, you can take inspiration and generate an idea. No, I am not saying to copy people, I am saying to find a new idea where there is one already. Most ideas generate off of other

Brainstorming:
No, there aren't thunderclouds in your brain. Brainstorming is the act of writing a general idea and branching it off in various different ways. What is similar to a snowflake? Snow. What reminds you of snow? A yeti...? Yahtzee! I want to make a yeti skin or a large pixel art yeti face! Or maybe a snow-themed texture pack with mobs as, you guessed it, yetis. Brainstorming is an 
incredibly good method and is well known for working. I recommend using it.

Theming:
This is more appropriate for projects and skins than other things. Having a general theme is actually interesting and consistent. With skins, you could have a series of medieval made-up characters or movie/tv characters. Whatever you want! This isn't that much of a method but rather something to keep you going, I guess. Start with thinking of a theme and base your content or a selected part on the theme concerned.

Basing:
Though this is a bit of taking inspiration, it is not exactly the same. What I mean by 'basing' is by basing a skin off of a 'thing', I suppose. This means that if you love Spiderman, basing a skin of him would be fantastic! And you're right. Or maybe having a evil texture pack. Having a Batcave? Basing is cool because people like downloading things based on famous places or maybe people and so on. You might have already seen a lot of 'based' content and it's common, yet still very interesting.

[b]Collaboratively Creating:[/b]
What's better than one brain? Two or more! Collaborative work is great because you can both think of the content that you will make and that way the process will be much faster and much easier. And of course, working with someone is a lot more interesting and two different minds could work together in making an awesome, unique idea.
Bye, I hope you find this handy.