I've found this course to be extraordinarily effective for me. I was able to come up with about a dozen ideas that I am enthusiastic about. 

Some of the brainstorming produced great characters for me. 

Some of them produced interesting settings. 

Some of them produced interesting plots seeds. 

I'm also doing NaNoWriMo as a personal challenge and I was dreading it coming up soon and bought the course in a panic, since I'm a genuine neophyte. I feel so much better now! 

Off to do the next course in the NaNoWriMo sequence! :-D

This course helped me refine some ideas I have been afraid to engage with because the ideas lacked clarity themselves.

This course is amazingly helpful. And inspirational. I had a concept. Maybe only a "what if". Not even a character. Just an event, a time and a place. Now I have a way to develop that idea.

Breakthrough! I've struggled in the past with creating a high concept idea detailed in one sentence, but no more! The break down of each core element was very helpful and I finally managed to create a story idea that I am happy with!

This is one of the best courses on how to come up with new ideas! Thank you so much for boosting my brainstorming power!

I have been a TV writer for more than 20 years, but it is the first time I am writing a book. This course set my passion for writing, which was dead, on fire. Thank you!

I've already brainstormed a couple of viable ideas for my next book!

I realised that me watching people was an actual normal thing for writers and much of what I have done naturally is acceptable and advisable. So great for the self-esteem haha!

This course helped me learn how to brainstorm ideas effectively. I enjoyed the exercises and the ways they helped me go deeper into my brainstorming. This course was a lot of fun, and I look forward to using these practices regularly!

Wow. I just couldn't stop with the lessons until I completed the entire course. I like her voice and the way the lessons are presented. I was engaged from begining to end. This course was the best $$ spent on learning about writing.

This course has made me realize that I am actually a lot more creative than I thought. I just didn't know how to tap into it. And thanks to you and your course I now know how... thank you so much!

Finally, I understand what high concept means and I am excited to try penning one or more of my own by brainstorming with the creative exercises from this course. Jessica Brody you are an encouraging and inspiring teacher. Thank you.

I just finished this course, and it is, by far, one of the best lessons on idea generation I've ever put to use. I have pages of ideas now. Once they started coming, they won't stop. Along with the high-concept ideas, they have also translated into other writing ideas that pop into my head at odd times, such as snippets of dialog or some scene, or event that I have to write down. With all these ideas popping up, I'm spending more time writing those down than choosing and working on one as a novel.

Such fun exercises and really got the juices flowing.

This course got me thinking HARD! Thanks for that!

Inspired me to sit down and actually brainstorm the idea I had bubbling in my mind for a while now

This course is helping me brainstorm ideas for my next writing project. I will also have more clarity about what my story is about before launching into the writing.

An inspiring course! I thoroughly enjoyed learning some new, exiting and applicable concepts. A big thank you!

The methods presented helped me approach brainstorming in a completely new way. Understanding the high concept ideas behind popular movies and books through the examples provided allowed me to start evaluating my ideas through a more critical eye.

I’ve got more ideas than I thought I would have and it’s very exciting. I’m digging in. This course was so helpful in getting ideas from everywhere you look. Fabulous!

Yes! I just figured out my one-sentence, high-concept idea of the story I've written after watching the first few lectures. Her breakdown of the storylines of other books/movies really helped me see my story clearly! It also helped me articulate my storyline concisely and clearly! I loved this course!

I considered myself an expert at brainstorming and have run brainstorming programmes for many organisations but I learned a lot about brainstorming in this course, especially how it applies to writing. I am always amazed at how incredible your courses are. 

I realized that my brain is more willing to come up with crazy, sometimes silly ideas. If I give it the chance.

Finally, finally I understand how the bring all the ideas I had in a book! Thanks Jessica! 

This was a wonderful course that helped remind me that there are ideas everywhere!

I have a story idea finally! Thank you!

This course pointed me in the right direction on how I'm not using the brainstorming in the most effective way to make plotting/outlining easier. It positively made me revise an idea that I had stalled on for years.

This course helped me fix my mindset about writing. The different approaches were also great at developing my repertoire.

This course has given me the insight and understanding of what it takes to create a Blockbuster Novel. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Now, I gotta go and start writing!

This course helped me form a more complete idea of a story that I want to write. Prior to taking the course, I had a nibble of an idea. The ideas for brainstorming really helped me come up with some concrete plans for my first book! Thank you!

This course opened my eyes to so many different ways to brainstorm ideas!

This course contained so many fabulous ideas to get my brain working and make fresh stories come to life! Well organized, many rocks turned to find hidden idea treasures. Thank you so much!

If you're stuck for an idea, not just an idea but a great idea, then this class is for you.

Jessica breaks down what makes a blockbuster idea into easy, understandable pieces and gives amazing examples and exercises to achieve this in our own work. Can't wait to brainstorm future ideas using Jessica's methods!

Yes! Learning new brainstorm techniques and how to organize my random thoughts into concrete ideas is a game changer!

The 4 Secret Ingredients changed my perspective and gave me a new framework to work with! Thanks!

This course clearly helped demystify the process of generating new ideas as well as evaluating existing ones.

It helped me understand how to better develop some of the ideas I already had written in my masterlist.

Yes! I only completed one of the exercises: Extra! Extra! Read all about it! and I already have an incredible idea from one of the first headlines I found. It is for a genre I had ever considered writing but I am so excited to dive in and plot this idea using the Save the Cat beats. This course is a goldmine! Thank you so much for these incredible resources!!

Wow! Now that I've gone completely through the course I'm ready to go back and really dig into those exercises. My brain is brimming with ideas, and I can't wait to get them into the computer or onto paper. :-)