Thinking a lot about this phrase from Stephen King's "On Writing" a lot today. He said it specifically about writing, but I have found that it applies to idea generation in-general.

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There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; 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.

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Start with the basic building block of all narrative.

In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing.

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Thinking a lot about this phrase from Stephen King's "On Writing" a lot today. He said it specifically about writing, but I have found that it applies to idea generation in-general.

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There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; 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.

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