Spider diagrams

This exercise was about generating ideas for different words by creating a spider diagram for each of the following words: ‘seaside’; ‘childhood’; ‘angry’; and ‘festival’. I noticed that my mood changed depending upon the word I was working with; which is something that I was also aware of during a previous exercise illustrating an editorial on knife crime.  I noticed that it was much easier and faster for me to generate ideas for words that I interpret as positive words e.g. ‘seaside’ and  ‘festival’; rather than words that for me have negative associations e.g. ‘anger’ and ‘childhood’. I also noticed that for words that are more personally significant for me, for example, ‘childhood’ I found it more challenging to go beyond my experiences and explore the word more generally. I found looking up synonyms to words and googling images useful techniques for generating ideas.