This is a brief excerpt from NoFilmSchool
Ideas are great, but in having ‘too many’ of them, you run the risk of overloading yourself, compounding your creative schedule to a point you can’t actually manage, or worst of all — never actually getting the thing written, or shot, or otherwise made — whatever the case may be. The editor of The New York Times, Hugo Lindgren, has just written a powerful self-case study about the many undeveloped story and concept kernels he’s had, why they never got off the back burner, and where all the time seems to have gone — in other words, a creative thinker’s worst nightmare. Whether you’re a writer, a shooter, a director, or a film editor, you might want to check out Hugo’s editorial, because you might see a lot more of yourself in his words than you may expect.
Suffice it to say the idea of becoming professionally comfortable in a craft that doesn’t necessitate the creative machinery churning on in your head (i.e., you want to write mystery novels, but you’re lecturing full-time about mold spores and temperate species of lichen to pay the bills) — and therefore putting off actually writing the thing indefinitely — is …
By: Dave Kendricken
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