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Anyone else have a large catalogue of fantastic ideas but lack the writing skills to execute it to your liking?

How do you get around this? Is it just a matter of try and try again?

>> No.15184265

>>15184241
Execute them not to your liking. Execute other ideas.

>> No.15184267

>>15184241
Just hire a good writer then.
Or develop the skills.
Everyone thinks they have a great idea in them.
You're not special.
What matters is the action you take and what you leave behind.
Start working now.

>> No.15184271

>>15184241

Lots of people do because they overestimate the importance of "ideas".

Ideas are ten a penny.

>> No.15184364

>>15184241
>Hey, dad, I've got an amazing idea!
>Nice, son, you've got nothing

>> No.15184389

>>15184241
I'm the opposite, rarely will I have what I would consider a "good" idea but my writing abilities are solid.

>> No.15185896

>>15184241
But anon good ideas are a triviality. The only way you can validate your ideas is by being a good author. The difference between a good and a bad book is seldom the quality of the idea rather it is ability of the author to explore it. Don’t kid yourself by saying your ideas are any better than anyone else’s. Keep practicing.

>> No.15187664

>>15184241
Ideas aren't worth a fucking thing. Pretty much everyone you will ever meet in your life has had a great idea for a book or movie or video game or some shit.

Just start writing you big gay idiot.

>> No.15187794

>>15184241
>Anyone else have a large catalogue of fantastic ideas but lack the writing skills to execute it to your liking?
Probably everyone on this board

>> No.15187803

>>15184241
Just write down all the ideas. Good quote from Borges:

“Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.”

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15187879

>>15184241
"Wow these white men opening their mouths while being photographed fucking disgust me. I know. I'll collect dozens of pictures of them."

>> No.15187884

>>151842s41
Put them in script pitch form and shop them around -- or take a lot of coke like Stephen King and shit out some approximation of the ideal.

>> No.15188487

>>15184241
Fucking practice writing you cocksucker. Nobody gets anywhere by bitching.