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This is a simple tip I read in a book about "mind maps".

When facing new kanji, especially at the beginning of a new session of making mnemonics and building images, you may sometimes feel like there's a black screen and no ideas seems to come up.

A good trick is to give the mind something to play with. Don't wait for something to come up or search in the dark for too long.

Because the memory is a big association machine, give it something, anything, and it will automatically start giving you new items, just by association. So give it an object from your room, a character from a movie you saw recently, etc.

for me the best are stories that deal with something weird or unique that hapend or that i have seen.

for example, i was at work and a machine broke, what caused an injury on mine hand.
so the kanji for damage is mine hand that got hurt+i was an employee when it hapend.

becouse it hapend to you, you can easy remember an obsucure story you wouldnt recall otherwise