This one is for all the writers…
“. . . good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.”
- King, Stephen. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. Scribiner: New York, 2000. pg 37.
I absolutely love this book. I think every writer should own a copy of it. It is part memoir, part writing manual. I like his idea that writing comes from nowhere. I have been thinking a lot lately, about the phrase “out of the blue” and its connection to creativity. It is an amazing topic that doesn’t seem to have any research behind it. Yet, it is something a lot of people recognize.
We get these ideas seemingly out of nowhere. When we get them, we need to recognize them and act on them. That is our job as writers.
Happy Monday Everyone!
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