This will be a bit nebulous.
I remember several years ago (OK, 20 or so) that there was a creative aid, which I think was called a concordance, and I believe it was developed by Brian Eno (or some other creative person). It was a list of things to try when you were stuck for an idea. They were very general, like
“cut it in half”
“make it twice as long”
“turn it upside down”
and such. There was a (ksh? perl?) script that would print out one of these lines at random. The idea was that you got stuck writing your song or whatever, and you got one of these instructions and that gave you an idea to get going again.
Anyone know what the heck I’m talking about?