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Writing Excuses 10.1: Seriously, Where Do You Get Your Ideas?

Writing Excuses

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The Garden of Low Hanging Fruit

"I want to tell stories with that terrible, terrible instrument of destruction. I read history and say, what could have gone wrong that didn't and let's make it go wrong?" "If you have a couple of things or maybe you just have one thing that might be cool but you don't know what to do, mash it together with something else," he says. 'Take random stuff and just combine them in new ways that no one's thought of before'

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