Ideas Captured: How to Create Compelling Content

A behind the scenes look at documentary film production and what any content producer can learn from the process. Guest Elizabeth Searles talks about her swan song documentary "Auerbachs and ZCMI Memories" with Rich Finlinson, author of "How to Capture Ideas and Create Compelling Content: An A-to-Z Approach."

We’ve known the restorative power of nature for thousands if not tens of thousands of years. It’s hard to disagree with Aristotle that “in all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.”

Over my shoulder is Bear Lake and in my heart is gratitude for the restorative power of nature, and particularly water.

A brief look at audience research questions tied to self-determination theory and a celebration of the number 23,090.

How to combine an A-to-Z approach with Julia Cameron's morning pages. Plus a glimpse at 26 ways to get to know your target audience.

After what happened early yesterday morning, I had to ask myself how well I use this list of 13 Stress Busters that were created with the A-to-Z approach used in my book How to Capture Ideas and Create Compelling Content.

How's your comfort level with putting your draft ideas in front of people and listening to their candid reaction? Here are five ways to get early and often feedback on your content. Listen to my Ideas Captured podcast for Day# 23087

Here’s why capturing ideas is important to me, and why it may also be important to you. It really gets down to three words.

What's to be learned today from an old, imperfect technology that forever changed the motion picture industry?

If the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, what is the one almost magical thing we could be grateful for? The answers will vary of course, but here are perspectives from two Franklins and Confucius.

Explore with me a few of the 411 action verbs in the Z Appendix of my book How to Capture Ideas and Create Compelling Content: An A-to-Z Approach. And for a limited time, if you'd like a free copy of the paperback version, message me your mailing address and a statement about why you'd like the book.

Shout outs to a musician, a hiking destination and a letter of the alphabet, and it's all connected on a pale blue dot as we take another look at how to capture ideas and create compelling content.

An example of using the A-to-Z approach to solve a creative challenge or simply ponder what you're grateful for. Also a look at the number 23,081.

Alex Engar of the Habit Hacked Community on Facebook is doing a daily video journal entry throughout August. His example has morphed into a challenge that inspired this episode. I also discuss the significance of the number 23,080, a count up and a count down. Original flute music by Robert Windpony Mann.

Guest Nancy Green talks about her new KUED documentary Search and Rescue and how she finds and captures ideas for her award winning films.

Three essentials of a great project vs. a seemingly more streamlined two element approach. Rich Finlinson talks with Dr. Greg Larsen who has combined his practice of dentistry with his hobby of woodworking, doing both from the same facility. Larsen discusses the main source of his ideas, the importance of tools and a memorable professor who taught him that some problems are best solved in your dreams.

Five ways to capture ideas, images and sound, plus an interview with a video graphics developer and artist. More detail from my book How to Capture Ideas and Create Compelling Content: An A-to-Z Guide. Includes a morning pages entry that starts with our amazing planet and ends zigzagging with zest, zeal and more.

Join me on a short but intense drive from my home to the pool where I swim laps. On the way we'll discuss three key questions from my book How to Capture Ideas and Create Compelling Content. You'll hear ideas on asking questions, striking up conversations to spur confidence and the roles of water and gratitude in spurring creativity.