Some days ideas will arrive easily and at other times it’s like a trip to the DMV, you really have to push yourself to get going. Thoughts for a story often come when you least expect it. Possibly an idea will spark when in line at the supermarket, next to some fascinating person…. You might envision WHAT their life is like, in turn making them the main character of your screenplay. Or maybe you’ll receive an answer to a question of how a scene should play out while driving and listening to the news. You hear a report of a woman giving birth in her car during a blizzard and it fits well with your story.
Ernest Hemingway once said we should write when we are drunk and edit when sober. Whatever inspires you, that special pen or a trip to Starbucks with creative material slurping coffee all around you, is a matter of experimentation.
Some times inspiration doesn’t come to us. You’ve had a bad day or that check you’ve been waiting for didn’t show up, again. Whatever the reason, it’s a skill to push one’s self even when our environment is chaotic.
Our quote of the week is from Ernest Newman, English music critic who reminds us that:
“Beethoven, Vagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.”
