Merry Christmas From the End of the World
Love, Rod and Ray
IDEAS...those magical little things.
It's pretty easy to forget where certain ideas or aspects of a story came from or when they came into being during the course of writing. Especially if that writing is over a long period of time and especially if it's for a movie. But I do get asked where the ideas come from? Both the short films I've made and the feature length scripts I've written get to the point where they begin to feel like something that just happened and I'm just finding the best, most important bits to put on paper so that the story can be told in the most compelling way possible. Happens every time. But where do the ideas come from? How about I answer a different question and hope it satisfies: What were the original ideas and where did those come from? Answering that is a little easier. The germ. The seed of an idea is what you start with. From that you cook and build and write and test and toss and love and hate and punch and kick and hug and doze off until whatever ends up on sc...
