Comments on: Inspiration and writing http://www.trevorhampel.com/inspiration-and-writing/ Trevor Hampel's Blog about Writing, Literature and Teaching Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:04:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Trevor http://www.trevorhampel.com/inspiration-and-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-86163 Trevor Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:42:17 +0000 http://www.trevorhampel.com/?p=1654#comment-86163 You are right of course, Ken. I've been so busy finishing off using all my own story ideas that I had almost forgotten the wonderful service you outline so clearly. I haven't personally had to use this helpful facility but I suspect a few of my writing friends certainly have - no wonder their stories always get accepted or win prizes ahead of me! You mention the Emerging Writers' program - I find this prospect both exciting and frightening. Exciting because of all of the new writers I'll have to read, and frightening because the price of a good idea will most certainly escalate exponentially. Could be a niche market in the making! You are right of course, Ken. I’ve been so busy finishing off using all my own story ideas that I had almost forgotten the wonderful service you outline so clearly. I haven’t personally had to use this helpful facility but I suspect a few of my writing friends certainly have – no wonder their stories always get accepted or win prizes ahead of me!
You mention the Emerging Writers’ program – I find this prospect both exciting and frightening. Exciting because of all of the new writers I’ll have to read, and frightening because the price of a good idea will most certainly escalate exponentially.
Could be a niche market in the making!

]]> By: Ken Rolph http://www.trevorhampel.com/inspiration-and-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-85008 Ken Rolph Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:25:05 +0000 http://www.trevorhampel.com/?p=1654#comment-85008 Nice snow job you are doing on our readers, there Trev. But I think it is time we writers became honest with our readers and admitted where we get our ideas from. They should know about The Idea Factory. This franchise is a secret source known to writers around the world. There's one in Sydney near Town Hall station and I believe there is one in Rundle Mall. They look like pokey little boarded up shops in dark corners. In the old days a writer would push a brown paper bag with a self-addressed postcard and a 5 pound note under the door. Within a week they would receive the postcard back with one sure fire idea handwritten on it. These days you put a $50 note in the brown paper bag and write your email address on the outside. You still have to go down physically to the site yourself and put the bag under the door. This ensures that only serious writers use the service. Within week you will receive an email disguised as spam but containing one sure fire idea that you only have to copy and paste. Luckily for us working writers there is a limit of 1 idea per month. Those who try to use the service more frequently find their names put on a black list. They are blocked from receiving any new ideas for a length of time. They just have to wait it out. This is the dreaded writers' block that we all console each other about. We are lucky that there is a limit of one idea per month. In the future we will be drowning in writers. The people at the Australia Council's Emerging Writers program have told me that in a short time all working people in Australia will retire early while still mentally and physically fit and healthy and in sound financial circumstances to become novelists. We are going to need more ideas than ever before. Nice snow job you are doing on our readers, there Trev. But I think it is time we writers became honest with our readers and admitted where we get our ideas from. They should know about The Idea Factory. This franchise is a secret source known to writers around the world. There’s one in Sydney near Town Hall station and I believe there is one in Rundle Mall. They look like pokey little boarded up shops in dark corners.

In the old days a writer would push a brown paper bag with a self-addressed postcard and a 5 pound note under the door. Within a week they would receive the postcard back with one sure fire idea handwritten on it. These days you put a $50 note in the brown paper bag and write your email address on the outside. You still have to go down physically to the site yourself and put the bag under the door. This ensures that only serious writers use the service. Within week you will receive an email disguised as spam but containing one sure fire idea that you only have to copy and paste.

Luckily for us working writers there is a limit of 1 idea per month. Those who try to use the service more frequently find their names put on a black list. They are blocked from receiving any new ideas for a length of time. They just have to wait it out. This is the dreaded writers’ block that we all console each other about.

We are lucky that there is a limit of one idea per month. In the future we will be drowning in writers. The people at the Australia Council’s Emerging Writers program have told me that in a short time all working people in Australia will retire early while still mentally and physically fit and healthy and in sound financial circumstances to become novelists.

We are going to need more ideas than ever before.

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