It's great to be able to just go with an idea and not have 10 people in a room telling me why I can't write in a huge mud slide at a school function with 50 kindergartners running around.
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My problem is never ideas. I've got more than I'll ever have time to write. It's all about how many I can get to, and which ones readers want to see the most.
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.
When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
I have multiple ideas per day, all the time. The vast majority of these are completely idiotic. Usually, I just sit on the idea for several months. And if I have not decided that it's idiotic, then it's... might be a good idea.
In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.
I have a day job, which means my family isn't dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.
I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.
That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.
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