Comments on: Ideas are Free, Part the Millionth http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/05/08/ideas-are-free-part-the-millionth/ writing, reading, eating, drinking, sport Thu, 17 May 2012 20:45:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mary Elizabeth S. http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/05/08/ideas-are-free-part-the-millionth/comment-page-1/#comment-67631 Mary Elizabeth S. Fri, 09 May 2008 02:25:31 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=1150#comment-67631 I think I have the concept of recurring ideas lodged a little too firmly in my head. Rather than becoming fearful that my writing is awful (though that happens, too) most of my bouts of writing-related depression and anguish are the result of my certainty that everything I do has been done before by a hundred people, and they all did it better than me. It makes me feel very sad and hopeless at times. :C ~Mary I think I have the concept of recurring ideas lodged a little too firmly in my head. Rather than becoming fearful that my writing is awful (though that happens, too) most of my bouts of writing-related depression and anguish are the result of my certainty that everything I do has been done before by a hundred people, and they all did it better than me. It makes me feel very sad and hopeless at times. :C

~Mary

]]> By: ~grace~ http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/05/08/ideas-are-free-part-the-millionth/comment-page-1/#comment-67622 ~grace~ Thu, 08 May 2008 22:43:52 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=1150#comment-67622 So true! A bunch of my friends are taking a creative writing this semester (to fulfill their "arts" requirement in their final semester, so they can graduate) and it's been really interesting watching these non-writers write. Aside from listening to them whine about how hard it is (no? writing is hard? really? who'da thunk it?) I also have to listen to them whining about how hard it is to "come up with ideas" and how people keep stealing their ideas. I have been trying to explain this "ideas are free" concept to them all semester. Do they get it yet? No. No they don't. ps. Dan I really like that quote. So true!

A bunch of my friends are taking a creative writing this semester (to fulfill their “arts” requirement in their final semester, so they can graduate) and it’s been really interesting watching these non-writers write.

Aside from listening to them whine about how hard it is (no? writing is hard? really? who’da thunk it?) I also have to listen to them whining about how hard it is to “come up with ideas” and how people keep stealing their ideas.

I have been trying to explain this “ideas are free” concept to them all semester. Do they get it yet? No. No they don’t.

ps. Dan I really like that quote.

]]> By: Gwenda http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/05/08/ideas-are-free-part-the-millionth/comment-page-1/#comment-67616 Gwenda Thu, 08 May 2008 19:39:58 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=1150#comment-67616 Gladwell seems to have just gotten sloppy with his thinking these days. Gladwell seems to have just gotten sloppy with his thinking these days.

]]> By: Dan Goodman http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/05/08/ideas-are-free-part-the-millionth/comment-page-1/#comment-67614 Dan Goodman Thu, 08 May 2008 19:32:07 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=1150#comment-67614 Did Shakespeare create Hamlet? He took a pre-existing story, and I don't think he did anything startlingly original with it. -"An original writer is not one who imitates no one, but one whom no one can imitate."- Did Shakespeare create Hamlet? He took a pre-existing story, and I don’t think he did anything startlingly original with it.

-”An original writer is not one who imitates no one, but one whom no one can imitate.”-

]]> By: hillary! http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/05/08/ideas-are-free-part-the-millionth/comment-page-1/#comment-67612 hillary! Thu, 08 May 2008 18:38:47 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=1150#comment-67612 I read this book that said that all the music that is composed in this world isn't original. What happens is that the composer thinks he hears music in his head, but really he's just hearing music from Faerie/Tír na n'Óg. It was a good book. HAPPY 18th BIRTHDAY TO ME! I read this book that said that all the music that is composed in this world isn’t original. What happens is that the composer thinks he hears music in his head, but really he’s just hearing music from Faerie/Tír na n’Óg.
It was a good book.

HAPPY 18th BIRTHDAY TO ME!

]]> By: Justine http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/05/08/ideas-are-free-part-the-millionth/comment-page-1/#comment-67611 Justine Thu, 08 May 2008 18:19:28 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=1150#comment-67611 Corey: Oh for definite. There are lone wolf geniuses but not that many. I don't know a single writer who writes without any input from other people. Not a single one. Without suggestions by my editors, my writer friends etc etc my books would suck. Corey: Oh for definite. There are lone wolf geniuses but not that many. I don’t know a single writer who writes without any input from other people. Not a single one.

Without suggestions by my editors, my writer friends etc etc my books would suck.

]]> By: Corey J Feldman http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/05/08/ideas-are-free-part-the-millionth/comment-page-1/#comment-67601 Corey J Feldman Thu, 08 May 2008 13:31:06 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=1150#comment-67601 I need to go read the article to see the context, but I do take issue with his notion that creative genius is by definition singular. Even ignoring the fact that no one creates in a vacuum, there are many examples of collaborative artistic genius. I need to go read the article to see the context, but I do take issue with his notion that creative genius is by definition singular. Even ignoring the fact that no one creates in a vacuum, there are many examples of collaborative artistic genius.

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