Ideas from a Slightly Different Point of View
A month or so ago, I wrote about where ideas come from and it got me thinking about the topic. Think, obsess... it's a fine line. I have friends who are painters and poets and musicians and I suspect they've asked themselves that same question- where do ideas come from? For painters and poets, well, I have no clue. You might as well ask me to explain theoretical physics to you. But then I got to songwriters- those crazy magical geniuses! They write in a shorter, wildly different format than I do, but they still need inspiration. I can't sing, much less read music, but I understand a tiny bit of their work. Some write about love and some write about hate- it's safe to say that relationships are pretty fertile ground for ideas. Dreams, news stories, people you meet, songwriters will tell you that their ideas come from the same places as fiction writers- get out and be part of the world. My post a month ago focused on leaving the couch and living life as a means of genera...
