When I was a kid I used to design role playing games based on these combat-driven sports I’d created in my head. Watching the rams v saints game reminds me of making those games. I’m specifically reminded of how I would build in penalties and bonuses based on crowd noise, home field, and even player temperament. In a sense I was coding the madden games before the madden games began to be coded in that faction. However, I never thought what I was doing was anything special. I figured these were the things—the ideas—that everyone had. This is a staple of my life. I think things up and assume everyone’s already done it.
This is not always the case. There are many ideas I’ve had as a writer only to see them bloom years later. There needs to be more trust or faith in myself. Believing in your ideas is the hardest thing for a writer to do next to actually sitting down and writing. I’m trying to make both these a reality for this latest group of projects I am working on. I especially mean to trust my ideas. That means abandoning the worry about originality and writing what I know and what I want.
That’s one to grow on.