Storystorm 2021 Day 6: Samantha Berger Lets it Out, Releases Ideas, & Lays Down Some Inspiration

Omg this post was exactly what I needed to read today 😂😂😂 thank you!

These are such FUN idea generators! And there are so many of them! Thank you, Samanatha!

My inner editor is right there-telling me what won’t work. Love the idea of not letting her in
Thanks for sharing your ideas! I also like to listen to young children and get. Ideas from them

Thanks for another reminder to embrace my inner child.

Thanks, Samantha! Printing off this JumpStart list and putting in on my desk! Grateful for your humor and energy!

Awesome ideas! Thank you both, Tara and Samantha, for helping us all on our writing journeys!

I love your writing! Thanks for sharing your great ideas for creativity!

Thanks for sharing the great suggestions!

#7. Like when I’m lying on the floor for yoga and can see all the gross stuff and lost toys under the couch… Thanks for your post, Samantha!

Thank you so much, Samantha! I love the list and am going to come up with a warm-up idea today. Super short and fun, of course! I look forward to reading The Great Big Poop Party! I can’t imagine what it’s about…

I know so many kids that love things that are brown and sticky! Your book is going to be a big success!

I needed this on a day when I have the t.v. off and not watching this awful political stuff. I would love to hang out with a totally fun author like this and not my inner critic and have some fun with puns and ideas. This writing process gets too serious for me and here come”the shoulds”– it should be fun and silly.I need to move to a totally free from criticism place or second guessing.

This was much needed, thanks so much for your ideas, Im so excited to use them!

Now I get it! Whenever I put ‘butt in chair’ I get clogged up…it’s that stinky inner editor interfering with my daily constitutional! Thank you, Samantha, for a hilarious post and wonderful top ten. Love the perspective and personification ones!

Hilarious! I love your ideas!

We may not be allowed to put Baby in the corner, but I called my Internal Critic a baby and put IT in the corner! So there’s that!! Great list of ideas!!!! Imma post this. lol

Your books are so fun! Thanks for sharing your tips.

Your ten ways are absolutely the BEST!!!!
I have written them down in my journal and I will use them everyday…thank you SO much! ❤️

I love and struggle with #10. It can be my New Year’s resolution. Your book looks so fun. Can’t wait to read it.

Thanks for dumping a major load of brain storming ideas, Samantha! Now to go and put them to use…what a fun and memorable post!

Great post and fun ideas for playing and sparking frolicking ideas. Those crazy inner critics are such party poopers! Love your ideas for ditching them. Thanks for the sparks today!

I so love potty humor!

Love this list of ideas! Cannot wait to try them out today! Thank you.

Thanks for sharing some great ideas to help get things moving 🙂

I’m pooped just thinking about all the fun ways you’ve unloaded on us, Samantha. Thanks!!

Such a fun post and terrific ideas, thank you!

Samantha,

Such a plethora of writing inspiration. It really gets those ideas churning and onto the paper (poop humor). See you’ve got me doing it now. Many thanks.

Can’t waste time getting to the poop deck of the SS Eyerman writing ship. Thanks, what fun it was to read.

Great list. Yes, going to PLAY! Thanks for the post.

What a FUN friend you must be to play with! Such a fun post. Thanks so much for sharing with us. Now I’m off to create a fun AKA for myself!

Thank you for the tips! I love your Crankenstein books!

Thanks for the inspiration!

Love the ‘Inner Editor is a total bummer’ ~ perfect!

Thank you Samantha for your inspirational ideas, and that extra bit of advice about that evil inner edit that is never far away.

Thank you, Samantha! I would love to know more about what inspired you to write What If? It’s a beautiful book!

Thanks for such a great load of playful prompts!

Love your sense of humor! Thanks for giving us ideas to unclog our creativity! 😉

I share the same feeling that many times when I try to think of something to write about, I can’t think of anything. When I decide to take a break and do something else, that’s when I truly think of a really good writing idea. Thanks!

It’s unbelievable how as soon as I started reading the list, my brain automatically started to discard the ones that were too far from my comfort zone.

Then I read it all, I stopped and I thought: ok then, today, you will pick the ones you wanted to avoid in the first place…and let’s see what happens…..so I’ll do just that!!!Wish me luck! 🙂

Great list! I always have to remember to do things simply for the joy of doing them.

I love creating word lists. Thanks for sharing your ideas!

Thank you, Samantha. Letting Story Storm play and flow freely!

What a helpful list to get things flowing! 😉 Thanks, Samantha!

If only I could be as funny as you are Samantha! Gonna work on letting all the ideas out!

This is a great post!

Great post great idea generator! Thanks for sharing your expertise.

These puns were perfect for a day like today – thanks!

Thank you for the shot of energy–it was sorely needed today–and your list of ways to get things moving. They’re pooptastic!

Thanks for the inspiration to get the Butt in Gear and keep the ideas flowing, Samantha!

Thank you. I never looked at the thought process this way. Mos def will try.

Love the list! Great things to remember!

I love the idea of writing words that I love. Fun!

What a fun list of ideas!

I love the idea of writing a list of my favorite words. Fun!

This is why I always write down my ideas from dreams-I figure there is nothing censoring them…

I love it! Those were all really great ideas, thanks for letting them out.

I love poop jokes! My inner 5 year old giggles.
Plus, I love all those great ideas for seeing things differently. It makes sense to change how you see things.

These are great ideas. We don’t play enough!

I LOVE this! Thanks for sharing the absolute best side of craft.

So many great ideas. I started a phenology project this year. A morning practice of watching nature. It focuses my morning, allows me to be creative, and enhances my curiosity.

When I sit down to work on a story and my inner critic begins to chatter in my ear, I tell it to be quiet, it can’t fix what isn’t written. It really can’t improve on an idea that hasn’t made it from thought to paper. It will get its chance.

I think it likes that I throw it a scrap knowing a meaty bone is on the horizon.

I am printing out this post. Its so right on, I need to remind myself to think this way, daily. I always have that voice in the back of my head, its time to make it go away. And your beautiful dog, mine have always been a part of my inspiration-a dog walk is wonderful, freeing time.

I want to let it flowwww!

Thanks so much for your motivating ideas and ways to release my writing capabilities and give me new perspectives. Everything you wrote is very useful!!

Thanks for great tips!

Does this blog have the most comments yet? Your theme is universal! And just last night my 8 year old demanded, “What Happens When You Flush?” Already written. But I want to read your book instead!

Excellent tips! My inner grade-school self still finds words such as butt, poop, and underwear hilarious.

Ooh, Samantha, I like #10 best. Go play. I just don’t do it enough. And, you know, if you have to work too hard at letting it go, it’s really no fun.

What an explosively spectacular list! Thank you so much!!

Great tips! Off go to do #10! Thank you! And congrats on the new book. Love the title. 🙂

Ha! I love all your puns! Telling stories to my 6 year old is an excellent way to be silly and just let ideas flow without judgement. Can I keep him this age forever? 🙂

I love your list of suggestions. And especially the one about sending our internal editors out to pick up the pizza – that would give me 1 hour of editor-free party time! Maybe longer if she has to tromp through the snow to the car at the bottom of the hill…

Thanks! Oh Inner Editor, Out With You! (for now.) Great reminder.

Such a fun post! And your book looks great! Thank you!

Thank you for the great ideas! I am potty training my 3 year old, and can’t wait to get your books to add some humor and fun to this experience!

I like the idea of picking a word I like the sound of and running with it. Even simple words can trigger what I call giggle story shorts. For example, I’ve always wondered who coined the term booger and why he called that dry flaky thing in his nose a booger.
I have to tell you though, that the most poignant part of your post for me was the bit about my inner editor. I battle my inner editor even when I write a grocery list! If you ever find a way to completely tune your inner editor out, please share!

No butts about it, I really enjoyed your post Samantha! I flushed the editor out of my system for the day and I can’t wait to start toying with some new ideas. Cheers!

Freak flags flying high into the atmosphere! Love this writers life.

Haha, I can attest that having a 5-year-old asking for a new on-the-spot story every night is one of the very best exercises for my writerly brain. “A story about a polk-a-dot blanket, mom!” Here you go, kid… (and he has high standards, too!). Thanks for sharing, Samantha, great tips all around!

This post was an absolute joy to read, thank you for your time and inspiration!

Thank you for these great suggestions! I already have the LEGO, but will definitely try some of the others!

These are great ideas and I will certainly use them. I especially love playing with my grandsons, age 5 and 2. I get a lot of ideas from my time spent with them and, especially, our imaginative play. Also, I recently read The Nest That Wren Built by Randi Sonenshine and I was so impressed by her word choices that I made of list of all those words that I either had heard of before or that I seldom see in print or seldom use. This will definitely help me expand my language. Here’s some inanimate objects that I will write a paragraph about – cookie jar, Christmas tree, T.V., and piano. They have a lot to share.

What a fun post, thanks for sharing it with us!

I wrote # 9 list. But # 7 intrigues me greatly! And #6.perhaps #4 I never considered before. So today I have 3 prompts waiting for a rainy day or after the 31 days of storystorm. Thanks.

Thanks for the loads of tips. It stinks to think some will never read this.

Thank you for your fun post. And your fun list of ideas. 🙂

FABULOUS!

What a great set of instructions! Thanks so much! I have a new idea to add to my chart right now!

Hi Samantha- Ok, your poop puns are fabulous and your top 10 list it pretty awesome too! (And I am not just BUTTering you up!)

POOP – there it is! A great list of ideas to get us going again. Thank you 🙂

Samantha, this post was awesome! Thank you!! #6 really opened up the floodgates for ideas for me; I’m still writing more down! Really insightful and fun, thank you!

Thank you for a really useful top ten :o)

I love the cover of your book!

It’s hard to keep that inner editor at bay!

Funny, punny lady!

Great ideas! Thank you, Samantha!