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In lugnet.space, John Henry Kruer writes:
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> I, too need ideas. I have just sorted about half of my pieces, and want to
> make a space ship! But no ideas. The pirate base and Merchant ship I'm
> building come easy, there is a basic template that you can make infanite
> amounts of varation on. But not space!
Why can't you make infinite variation in Space? If anything, I would think
Space would be bounded only by your imagination. Arguably Pirates and
Castle have certain, albeit not great, limits based on our perspective of
the historical or sword & sorcery fantasy. But with Space you could develop
a whole new idea and it could still work.
Don't get me wrong, I love all themes. In fact (to answer the original
question in this thread) that is my solution to Builders Block: keep a wide
interest in themes. This way, if my inspiration for Castle building fades I
can take a break and build Town. If that fades, I can build Space. Etc.
Typically, this switch occurs about once a year with me (with shorter breaks
for small contest-inspired MOCs).
The other cure (for me) for Builders Block, is to keep active in other
hobbies, especially reading and writing. I read mostly ancient and medieval
history, so when I read it is only a matter of time before I learn about
some long forgotten device used by a lost empire. Naturally, I start to
wonder how such a thing might be rendered in Lego. ...When I write, it is
mostly science fantasy, and that inspires me to build Lego models of
characters, spacecraft, cities, etc. that I develop.
Cheers,
-Hendo
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| In lugnet.space, folks write of the need to deal with Builder's Block. Some thoughts come to mind of how I have dealt with this in the past: Don't deal with it (caution, this may lead to a new Dark Age) Change scale - build BIGGER stuff (caution, (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) But the problem is that for something like, say, a ship, you have a definate idea of how to start, you know what a ship looks like, has in it, etc. But in space, you have to make up a new idea, and proceed along it, which can be difficult. It (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| (...) I, too need ideas. I have just sorted about half of my pieces, and want to make a space ship! But no ideas. The pirate base and Merchant ship I'm building come easy, there is a basic template that you can make infanite amounts of varation on. (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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