Heuristic Ideation Method (for Skogkatt)

I'm sorry this took so damned long.  A couple of weeks ago, I got to spend some time at the Wanderer's Hut with some cool people doing writerly things.  I am sort of betwixt and between and stalled out bad, so I wanted to get something done, and I'd heard of this, a brainstorming tool with the I'm-not-quite-sure-it's-actually-heuristics name.

The basic idea of the tool is you make a grid, and two things, doesn't matter what they are, really.  In the case of the one I am attaching, those two things were a free association based on a story I want to write of people falling into abysses, which I think comes from all the abysses I have been falling into playing Dark Souls (YOU DIED).  The other was, ironically enough, given yesterday's screed, a song by Lana Del Rey I was listening to during the 25 minutes of focused activity we were taking in turns (if you're thinking Pomodoro, yeah, it was).  

When you have the two things, you break them up into 5 things the describe or compose or are part of the larger thing, arrange them on their axes and then try to combine them and see what you come up with.  In this case, the Y axis is the stuff I came up with for images, and the X is the stuff I picked up from the song.

Sealed FateRainWORDSRedemptionLaughterAbyssDamnationRain in the AbyssFill the Abyss with WordsKatabasisLovecraftian SiginificanceGreen GlassScrying GlassRain on GlassEtched in Glass, the Message in CracksThe Glass UnbreaksThe Glass that Laughs at YouLurchGuy Pearce CausalityThe Raindrop as it Forms in the CloudsThe Word that Drops You."Mote" DamnationThe Best Worst Joke Ever.DimensionsOmniscient Perspective PointElemental Plane of AirVERBUMMirror UniverseThe Game (I Lost)HolesBroken FateWalk Between the RaindropsMagic WordsGetting Away with itTrickster Spirit

This one turned out to be less fruitful than I hoped in terms of something writeable, and some of the things I don't remember what I meant (Guy Pearce Causality... Memento?  Maybe?), but it was kind of fun and had a couple of interesting bits in there.  

The Glass that Laughs at You, The Raindrop as it Forms in the Clouds, The Word that Drops You...  Interesting ideas.  I did one other using a random draw of 6 tarot cards and Bat for Lashes' "Moon and Moon" which seems to be a little more promising.  

I don't expect this to work for you, but I like to remix and mashup and get my ideas that way (the downside is that character, theme and story are often like three shy virgins that I have to orchestrate into a threesome, from another room, over the phone.