Episode 9: Where do you get your ideas? With Mo Willems — Kids Ask Authors
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Episode 9: Where do you get your ideas? With Mo Willems — Kids Ask Authors
Neil Gaiman | Cool Stuff | Essays | Essays By Neil | Where do you get your ideas?
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for a fiction writer the question of where things come from is, in my experience, a bit mysterious.
Anna Quindlen • Write for Your Life
Something Charlie Chaplin said: "Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watch-tower on the look-out for incidents that may excite the imagination - music, a sunset, may give image to an idea.
I would say, pick a subject that will stimulate you, elaborate it and in
... See moreI usually don’t know what I want until someone shows me, or until I encounter it in the world for the very first time. That’s why, when I work with a creative professional like an illustrator, I am careful never to lead them too much about what silly ideas I think I have; I want to give them maximum freedom to put their own stamp of creativity on m... See more
read.lukeburgis.com • Why We Need More Omakase Creators
Good ideas appear out of nowhere, from seemingly unrelated concepts coming together and creating a new thought in your head. You can't force this process, your job is to recognize when they show up and take advantage of them.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
The “idea” isn’t a finished product with identifiable boundaries that one moment sprung into being—one of the reasons artists so hate the interview question, “So what was your inspiration for this?” Any idea is actually an unstable, shifting intersection between myself and whatever I was encountering. By extension, thought doesn’t occur somehow ins
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