Writing Report April 27, 2018
Ideas.
Doncha just hate ‘em?
I mean, as a writer, I’m supposed to love new ideas, right?
Yeah…in the abstract.
But the reality is that there are only so many minutes in a day, so many days in a year, so many years in a writer’s productive life.
So you get a really good, really cool idea…
…and there’s just not the time or place to execute it properly!
To paraphrase a
famous sailor man,
I yamsk fruskipated.
This morning, while taking my morning constitutional, I started thinking about this idea.
I had the basic idea years ago -- a really nice concept for a thriller series -- but outside of, “Hey, that would be cool,” nothing popped up that justified wasting paper or pixels on it.
Until this morning.
Then all of a sudden, while walking along, I saw the opening scene unfold in my head.
And not just the basic idea, but how the characters were introduced.
I guarantee when (if!) executed, it will Grab Your Attention.
Could be TV, could be comics.
Good cast, nice variety of colorful characters.
After I typed the opening scene up, 15 minutes more of brainstorming produced with more than a dozen solid story ideas.
And the cool thing is this:
While the idea seems far-fetched, it’s inspired by a real person and real events.
Oh, man, if only Quinn Martin was still in business…
But that was then and this is now.
What to do, what to do…?
Answer:
Keep it close to the surface.
Flesh out ideas as they come along.
Maybe it will coalesce into novel format, maybe I’ll find a comics publisher or a TV producer who’s interested.
But until then,
it joins another
couple of hundred
ideas awaitin’ their turn…
© Buzz Dixon