Austin Kleon on planting the seeds of ideas with nothing but pick-and-mixed words. Features this lovely quote from Ray Bradbury’s Zen in the Art of Writing:

These lists were the provocations, finally, that caused my better stuff to surface. I was feeling my way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of my skull … I was beginning to see a pattern in the list, in these words that I had simply flung forth on paper, trusting my subconscious to give bread, as it were, to the birds.

Won’t you open that trapdoor.