Re: New Ideas
Not that it really matters to anyone, but I'll jump in for a moment.
Ideas, as with some of you, come to me from everything every week. A news story on TV. An article in the newspaper or magazine. Hearing a song. Generally, though, they just pop in my head for some reason. Most are comedies & romantic comedies, but there is a mix of thriller, sci-fi, horror, and even a few dramas. I usually come up with a title and story about the same time. Sometimes the title will come first and a basic logline will follow within seconds. Other times, I think of a the very basic story set up and some key moments and then the title comes quickly afterwards. I love puny and play-on-words titles, much to my wife's chagrin. (She's sweet about it, but still.)
I write basically all down, thus an overly long list. I never think about genre or needing to write for a genre. Only once that happened, and I wrote a horror script and they made it. They did a terrible, terrible job. (I've mentioned this before, so I'll stop there.) I just try to keep myself open to ideas regardless, and again write them all down. Sometimes I jot the idea down and write a note to myself like "What are you thinking?" or "This is terrible." But I still write it down. If it comes to me later while up and about, then I'll ponder it some more to see if i can do a quick fix in my mind. Other times while scrolling through my list I might do a little tweak or fix to an idea.
I find for me, if an idea has been well received by others and it keeps coming up now & then as something I need to work on, then I try to lead one of those. I try to stay focused but I do keep a few things going at once and if I feel I need to move on either due to the idea and/or my own writing inadequacies, then I do.
Not that it really matters to anyone, but I'll jump in for a moment.
Ideas, as with some of you, come to me from everything every week. A news story on TV. An article in the newspaper or magazine. Hearing a song. Generally, though, they just pop in my head for some reason. Most are comedies & romantic comedies, but there is a mix of thriller, sci-fi, horror, and even a few dramas. I usually come up with a title and story about the same time. Sometimes the title will come first and a basic logline will follow within seconds. Other times, I think of a the very basic story set up and some key moments and then the title comes quickly afterwards. I love puny and play-on-words titles, much to my wife's chagrin. (She's sweet about it, but still.)
I write basically all down, thus an overly long list. I never think about genre or needing to write for a genre. Only once that happened, and I wrote a horror script and they made it. They did a terrible, terrible job. (I've mentioned this before, so I'll stop there.) I just try to keep myself open to ideas regardless, and again write them all down. Sometimes I jot the idea down and write a note to myself like "What are you thinking?" or "This is terrible." But I still write it down. If it comes to me later while up and about, then I'll ponder it some more to see if i can do a quick fix in my mind. Other times while scrolling through my list I might do a little tweak or fix to an idea.
I find for me, if an idea has been well received by others and it keeps coming up now & then as something I need to work on, then I try to lead one of those. I try to stay focused but I do keep a few things going at once and if I feel I need to move on either due to the idea and/or my own writing inadequacies, then I do.
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