I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be a great idea.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.
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.
I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
You start with an idea but then so many things can happen.
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.
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 all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is.
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.