The Birth of Ideas

[cloudy]

Sometimes you don't want to write all the buildup, and just skip to the good parts

I'm exactly the opposite. Writing the story is the easiest for me, while writing the sex has gotten to be boring as hell. That may be why my last couple of stories had zero sex in them.

 

[cantdog]

Hello. Nice to see you.

Yes, writing is the hardest part. Especially when other issues come into play, like *shudder* working.

Work eats shit, man. Work eats shit from tin plates. With a spoon.

But if you went pro as a writer, wouldn't writing be work? Uh oh.

 

[Oblimo]

I most often get ideas for new stories, scenes and subplots when driving in the car.

But (and, oh God, I can't believe I'm admitting this; it is so embarrassingly Freudian) when I'm blocked working through a scene? The place I am most often when I get unblocked and realize how to move a scene along?

Yeah, you guessed it: the can.

 

[elsol]

Stimuli...

Reading something and not liking how a particular thing was handled, listening to music and having a certain phrase kick something off, bored and just thinking about stuff, the SUPER-HOT Blonde in Marketing...

Pretty much any stimuli can trigger ideas for me.

 

[scriptordelecto]

For me, ideas can come from anywhere. I like to observe people when I'm out and about and I try to imagine what their stories are. I agree that the ideas are easy, it's getting them to come to life on paper that's the challenging part.

 

[Aurora Black]

Work eats shit, man. Work eats shit from tin plates. With a spoon.

But if you went pro as a writer, wouldn't writing be work? Uh oh.

I don't care for your tone. Contempt and sarcasm make a very bitter breakfast, and I'm not in the mood for you to cram your shit down my throat. Either from a tin plate or with a spoon.

When I said "work," I meant someone going every weekday to a 9 to 5 job that he/she hates. I have gone pro, and yes there is a lot of work involved, but it's doing something I love.

 

[AchtungNight]

Congrats on going pro, Aurora. I hope it makes you happy.

 

[Aurora Black]

Congrats on going pro, Aurora. I hope it makes you happy.

Thank you. I am.