New ideas come from the melding of old ideas.
Fiction writers should embrace random generators to aid in brainstorming new ideas for their stories.
I’ve read all of the Ackerman/Puglisi thesauruses, and I would find it useful if I had a tool to randomly pick topics from those thesauruses to use in my stories. For example, for each character I create, it may be helpful to choose a primary emotion for the character from a list like the one provided in The Emotions Thesaurus.
It would be helpful for authors to have a resource for generating random story elements to aid in brainstorming for stories.
See my article Randomly Generating Ideas for Story Elements for some of my thoughts on idea generation.
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