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  • Neil Gaiman - Where do you get your ideas?

    From the page: "The Ideas aren't the hard bit. They're a small component of the whole. Creating believable people who do more or less what you tell them to is much harder. And hardest by far is the process of simply sitting down and putting one word after another to construct... more

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  • Rated by purplegem on May 21, 8:17pm

    Neil Gaiman - Where do you get your ideas? 'Where do you get your ideas?' "And I realized I owed them an answer. They weren't old enough to know any better. And it's a perfectly reasonable question, if you aren't asked it weekly." "This is what I told them: You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. "

  • Reviewed by radfungi on Mar 06 2009, 1:38pm

    weird. I get my ideas out of my butt.

  • Reviewed by voodooKobra on Feb 09 2009, 1:01am

    From the page: "That mean I don't have to get up early in the morning and sit on a train with people I don't know, going to a job I despise. " Grammar fail.

  • Reviewed by sdashiki on Jan 20 2009, 11:02am

    Why are so many people lately thinking this guy is the messiah? I dont get it.

  • Reviewed by SMA11784 on Jan 20 2009, 5:27am

    I caught myself thinking, "fifty seven-year-old eyes... she must be near retirement, yeah?"

  • Rated by sunnyschlenger on Jan 17 2009, 8:00pm

    So well-written.

  • Rated by armannd on Jan 09 2009, 9:14am

    Do you get any ideas?

  • Rated by Sugartechnik on Jan 03 2009, 6:15pm

    Nice article about ideas from a modern master. I like how he implies idea sources are somewhat a writer's trade secret. Also, the part about how ideas are just the beginning and the hard part is articulating them into good prose; is a real home truth. Nicely written and a pleasure to read.