Tag: ideas

  • Brainstorming Like a Psychopath

    People often ask where writers get ideas. Beginning writers seem to have an overarching concern that their ideas will run dry. First off, I don’t think this can actually happen. I have never sat down to write without some sort of idea forming. Beyond that, I think that your truly original ideas begin to develop after…

  • Opening a Vein

    “There is nothing to writing.  All you do is sit at a typewriter and open a vein.” – Red Smith Writing can be difficult, especially knowing what to write.  I’ve been reading several blogs lately about ideas and the constant influx of them when you don’t need them, their apparent extinction when you do, and…