Help Your Ideas Branch Out

An anecdote

When I first started college, I thought that I knew how it worked. Here was my image: When you start college, you chose a major. That major had a list of classes that you had to take. Once you finished all of those, you could graduate.

As plenty of college students will tell you, a college experience is rarely so straightforward. My experience involved changing my major three times as well as enrolling in a myriad of classes that had nothing to do with my graduation requirements.

While frustrating at times, this experience helped me learn a valuable lesson—viewing the world through a narrow lens can rob you of valuable opportunities. Although my website design, advertising, and computer science classes were not a part of my required course list, I was able to make connections through them that expanded my vision and creativity.

How often do you find yourself in a creative rut?

PhraseWorthy gives you the tools to make lateral connections and create inventive wordplay that goes outside of the box.

Synonyms and close matches

Under the “Explore” tab on the PhraseWorthy app, there is a “Synonyms and Close Matches” feature. Consider this scenario:

Suppose you are trying to create a clever name for a quilt shop. You type in the word “quilt” in the PhraseWorthy app, and while you find a couple of good options, nothing seems quite right to you. Then, you scroll down to the Synonyms and Close Matches feature. There you find quite a few words that you’d like to explore, and you decide to branch off and explore “sew.” Suddenly, your options have more than doubled! You settle on “You Reap What You Sew,” a witty choice from the Swap Idioms tab.

(Did you know? You can click on any blue word in the PhraseWorthy app to add it to your list of words!)

Do you see how exploring just one related word led us to a whole new set of inventive options? Try using the PhraseWorthy app to discover new wordplay possibilities for yourself!