Neil Gaiman | Cool Stuff | Essays | Essays By Neil | Where do you get your ideas?

If you have an idea of what you want to make, what you were put here to do, then just go and do that.

While you are at it, make your art. Do the stuff that only you can do.

Neil Gaiman has two rules when he sits down to write:1. He doesn't have to write anything if he doesn't feel like it.2. He can't leave or do anything else until the writing time he set aside is over.(This comes from his appearance on the Tim Ferriss podcast - it's worth a listen.)