Over at a blog I often read called The Writer’s Technology Companion they’re running a contest on mind-mapping -a technique my visual-learning brain rather likes – and the theme was “where do you get ideas”. That’s where this colourful mind map sprung from. In fact my ideas come from so many different sources that I ran out of room to represent them all, but you get the idea. It’s no grand amazing news or anything, but it was fun for me to flick through my lil’ green notebook of ideas and remember how each one came to be.
Hi Amanda,
I just discovered your blog from The Writer’s Technology Companion. It’s fun to peek at your idea sources!
I love doing mindmaps, so I think I’ll make a similar post for the contest. Maybe I’ll even break out the markers and crayons…
heya amanda.
I just wandered in on vagabondish, and i got to this site. lol..i liked the mind mapping post, and I have to say you have the “the internet is suddenly so useful, i don’t know how we survived without it” down pat. 
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