Idea Guys · 1:26am Sep 20th, 2015
I don't know about you all, but I hate "idea guys"*. They come in two flavors:
1. Here's an idea, it'd be great if you did all the work for me but I get a tiny amount of credit so I can claim that I did it all.
2. I have these great ideas. I'm not going to do a damn thing with them, but I'm going to constantly tell everyone how great x-idea is and how i'd do it if I had the money/time/effort/insert excuse here.
Some of you know these people and know them intimately. Sadly, for me, one of them is a relative, and Katie** won't shut up about how wonderful her ideas are if she just had the time to do so. Granted, not everyone can: my wife has to balance her comic work with taking care of her ill father. Another relative, Adam has to juggle work and a billion other things as well. I myself have some novels good to go, but don't have the money just yet to get the covers that I would like to my satisfaction. But it's only the first case where they sit in the morass of "I could, if...."
Those are damnable words. Evil words. Words that should be expunged from your dictionary like Sheepa LeBeef shouting "JUST DO IT!"
Because he's right. In the end, only you are to blame for stalling. There will always be obstacles, and there will always be challenges - but the old saying still holds true: nothing worthwhile is easy.
That's just how it goes.
So write, and write and write. Today was the first day in weeks (you can ask BlueBastard for proof) that I stopped to do something for leisure and didn't spend any time writing (well, until this.) My wife is always telling me I need to take a day for myself. But I don't. Because I constantly need to hone my craft, build it, tear it down and rebuild until I know exactly how the engine works, so I can build something better, grander and capable of standing the test of time.
We were not made to sit in a morass of mediocrity, yet too many of us do so. We were made to reach for the higher ground, if only we would try.
Give it a shot. What have you got to lose?
* An "idea guy" is what I mentioned above, but that's all they are. There's a difference between having an idea you cannot work on for one reason or another and constantly talking about it. The former is normal. The latter is an "idea guy".
** Names mentioned aren't real, mainly so I don't have relatives rail on me.
Where's the upvote a blog button? Cause we need one. This would have an up vote from me.
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I have an Idea
go back to AAG
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and this is why I ignore Idea Guys.
There's a place for idea guys. They can speak to the writers on Patreon who accept commissions.
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are you going to shred my email like a heartless hasbro exec
I admit that I may be a type 2. I do try not being a jerk about it.
See, sometimes I have the problem where I just can't come up with ideas. Like, I'll go and want to program something in, say, python, to try and learn the language, but then I open up my text editor and say "Well, what do I do now?"
But then I'll ask my friends what I should do and usually it's something far too complicated or over my head to do. No, I cannot make this amazing game that you had an idea for if all the syntax I know in this language is just a few steps removed from "Hello world!"
Or, possibly, that's the excuse I give myself. Not quite sure, which worries me.
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I guess I would qualify as a type one, myself. I don't do it for credit, though; I just hope that tossing an idea into the ring in forums and similar places might spark inspiration for someone else...
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I should make it clear: I'm talking about the really obnoxious types. A month ago Katie spent a full day talking about her ideas to the point that we just wanted to punt her, while Adam handed over an idea that he couldn't use. It's not the fact that you don't have the ability to do it or the time: it's more of making an obnoxious ass out of onesself doing so.
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Ah, should have figured as much
3406559 I'm in management; I only make an ass of myself off of the clock...
Yeah, this seems to be a trend lately, I'm having a huge amount of Idea Guys topics