Turn, Turn, Turn

Thousands of people are waiting for their muse to appear. Well, heads up, world – I caved her brain in

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Explore the darker stuff, like a door you don't want to go through.

Michelle Goode

8/11/10, 11:31am SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPK-Fytqlbf FILED UNDER: #Dark #tone #character #theme #secrets #risk #ideas

Don’t tell people about your great idea. Not because they’ll steal it (they don’t give a shit), but because any idiot can think of a good idea.

NOTES: 1 7/28/10, 10:44pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPK-Fyp-Ym0 FILED UNDER: #Ideas #inspiration #pitches #pitch #concept #hook #Logline

Don’t be original for the sake of it. If I’m going to watch a film called Robin Hood, I want stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, not ‘the importance of father and son relationships’.

7/17/10, 8:08pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPK-Fyn9jox FILED UNDER: #Originality #ideas #unique #Logline #premise #robin hood

All work and no play makes ideas very hard to come by.

Ricky Whatley, Writer (via Twitter)

7/13/10, 9:52pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPK-Fym9p8N FILED UNDER: #Block #procrastination #stuck #ideas #recreation #writers

It's insulting when people assume that all writers' projects are direct formulations of their experiences. Writers have an imagination and they have the creative ability to flex it.

Katie McCullough, playwright

6/30/10, 6:47pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPK-Fyizs9_ FILED UNDER: #Imagination #ideas #subjects #themes #experience #life stories

Do it right and breaking the rules can sell your script. (Hit that ‘High Res’ button below)

6/29/10, 3:00pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPK-Fyihz4B FILED UNDER: #rules #books #originality #ideas #style #voice #unique

Anyone can do plots, that's easy. The difficult thing is creating fresh characters and dialogue.

Robin Kelly, ‘Introduction To Writing TV Drama’

6/29/10, 1:00pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPK-Fyigjx8 FILED UNDER: #Plot #character #priorities #ideas #dialogue #spec #calling card #TV

Writers are so imaginative, they can come up with ten different ways to ask ‘So what should I write?’, ‘What are you looking for?’, ‘What will get made?’.

6/28/10, 8:36pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPK-FyiWCdw FILED UNDER: #conferences, #writers, #festivals #workshops #imagination #questions #inspiration #ideas #stories

Critics who consider ‘high concept’ films popcorn fluff don’t mention Hitchcock.

@sdarancette

6/28/10, 9:33am SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPK-FyiP-Ag FILED UNDER: #blockbuster #concept #high #hitchcock #ideas