tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post7972864057438488394..comments2024-03-14T18:09:09.667-05:00Comments on Do Some Damage: Fresh from the Ideas Factory...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-75335671816513470662011-04-08T23:54:19.353-05:002011-04-08T23:54:19.353-05:00I can never find a story idea if I'm looking f...I can never find a story idea if I'm looking for one. They hit me when I least expect it and never go where I think they are going.Joelle Charbonneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13608552691748018256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-72444471851400114662011-04-08T09:33:57.866-05:002011-04-08T09:33:57.866-05:00Some of my ideas are so vague that, by the time I ...Some of my ideas are so vague that, by the time I find the story in the idea and finish it, I can't remember how it started.Al Tucherhttp://alberttucher.writersresidence.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119990365479009764.post-50376411552129009402011-04-08T07:32:27.469-05:002011-04-08T07:32:27.469-05:00I once saw Robert B. Parker tell a story about bei...I once saw Robert B. Parker tell a story about being on one of those local morning shows with Stephen King. The hostess asked King where he got his ideas. King said, "Utica. There's a store off the main street there. We all use it."<br /><br />Unfazed, the hostess asked parker the same question. "Same place," he said, and she went on to the next question on her list.<br /><br />My greatest ambition is to have someone ask me where I get my ideas sometime, and to have the presence of mind and stones to answer, "There's this store in Utica Robert parker told me about..."Dana Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350344882342624735noreply@blogger.com