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How to Get and Develop Killer Story Ideas (Summary)
How to Get and Develop Killer Story Ideas (Summary)
John Brown and Larry Correia
Life, the Universe, and Everything at BYU on February 18, 2011
From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfWUtHMlZf8
Transcript at http://community.livejournal.com/wetranscripts/41783.html
Ideas are everywhere! But how do you do it? How do you get and develop great ideas?
Two principles of creativity:
1. Turn your zing sensors on. This means that you are alert, looking around for things that tingle your interest. Things that give you a little zzt.
2. Ask questions. Use creative Q&A to guide yourself in asking questions and coming up with some answers. Your question should focus on building a story: characters, setting, problem, and plot. So you will ask what could cause a problem? What does it cost? Similar, simple questions. Then start listing options.
Remember a farmer's faith. Manure produces gold. Cherish your crappy ideas, throw them on the garden of your mind, and you will get wonderful ideas.
We all have relatively small brain capacities. 3 to 5 items. But, if you make a paper list, you can remember more things because you can see them. So make a list on paper.
The exercise that they did was to take the setting of modern-day Wyoming and ghosts, then list the things we think of for each of those two, and finally twist the results.
List and twist: list normal associations, then twist things.
Larry talked about Monster Hunter International being an homage to B movies. He said he started by listing B movie tropes. The characters are basically B movie stereotypes, twisted to be believable persons.
Michael Crichton basically took a technology and asked what can go wrong.
Mary Higgins Clark says, "Take a dramatic incident that happened to you, or someone you know, or something you read about. Something that sticks in your mind. Then ask what if, suppose, why?"
Websites: http://johndbrown.com/ and http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/
John Brown and Larry Correia
Life, the Universe, and Everything at BYU on February 18, 2011
From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfWUtHMlZf8
Transcript at http://community.livejournal.com/wetranscripts/41783.html
Ideas are everywhere! But how do you do it? How do you get and develop great ideas?
Two principles of creativity:
1. Turn your zing sensors on. This means that you are alert, looking around for things that tingle your interest. Things that give you a little zzt.
2. Ask questions. Use creative Q&A to guide yourself in asking questions and coming up with some answers. Your question should focus on building a story: characters, setting, problem, and plot. So you will ask what could cause a problem? What does it cost? Similar, simple questions. Then start listing options.
Remember a farmer's faith. Manure produces gold. Cherish your crappy ideas, throw them on the garden of your mind, and you will get wonderful ideas.
We all have relatively small brain capacities. 3 to 5 items. But, if you make a paper list, you can remember more things because you can see them. So make a list on paper.
The exercise that they did was to take the setting of modern-day Wyoming and ghosts, then list the things we think of for each of those two, and finally twist the results.
List and twist: list normal associations, then twist things.
Larry talked about Monster Hunter International being an homage to B movies. He said he started by listing B movie tropes. The characters are basically B movie stereotypes, twisted to be believable persons.
Michael Crichton basically took a technology and asked what can go wrong.
Mary Higgins Clark says, "Take a dramatic incident that happened to you, or someone you know, or something you read about. Something that sticks in your mind. Then ask what if, suppose, why?"
Websites: http://johndbrown.com/ and http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/