The Queue Grows
Posted on May 24, 2010
It never fails. Seriously, it just never fails. I get two or three days into a project (one that’s already got other projects lined up behind it, mind you), and I get an idea. A big idea. Possibly a great idea.
See, last Tuesday, I started work on a rewrite. It’s an extensive rewrte, and it demands all of my concentration. But then Thursday night, this amazing opening scene crashed into my head. An interesting way to tell a novel followed right behind it, and soon I was at my laptop, pounding away on the keys to make sure the idea didn’t vanish. That idea’s still sitting there, and it will probably sit there for a year before I can get to it. It happens sometimes, but I think it’ll be worth it.
Ideas don’t collect dust. They ripen.
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“Ideas don’t collect dust. They ripen.”
Man, I hope that’s true.