The truth is, I think, […] for me inspiration comes from a bunch of places.
(Counting on his fingers …) Desperation, deadlines …
A lot of times, ideas will turn up while you are doing something else.
And most of all, I think, ideas come from confluence.
They come from two things flowing together, they come, essentially from day-dreaming. It’s … it’s something I suspect that’s something that every human being does.
Writers tend to train themselves to notice when they’ve had ideas. Not that they get anymore ideas or get inspired more than anyone else. We just notice. We notice when it happens, a little bit more.
You go,well, you know, everybody knows that if you get bitten by a werewolf, when the moon is full, you will turn into a wolf. You know that.
And then there’s that moment when you’re sitting thinking, so what happens if a werewolf bites a goldfish?
Or what if the werewolf sinks its fangs into a chair? And what if you’re sitting in that chair and the moonlight touches it? Slowly it starts feeling more and more wolfish and it growls and what about the … you know? And oh my god! Then you’d have to set it in the winter, cuz you’d need the snow for people to try and figure out why you’ve got chair leg marks in the snow. By the body. That has its throat ripped out.
And suddenly, you have a story!
The whole video is funny, yet so full of wisdom.
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