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Ideas Don’t Grow on Trees
Published Feb 17, 2023
Updated Feb 22, 2023
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Translator: Austin Wagner
Workshop Diary 8
Where do you get your ideas? Writers are constantly getting this question, and it’s not because of wanting to keep some big secret that they’re reluctant to answer, it’s because most of them don’t even know. That aha moment, that ding of the lightbulb above the cartoon character’s head, is often unexpected and incomprehensible. From the outside it may all seem very mystical, an artist being “kissed by the muse,” or the “stroke of inspiration.” As if they weren’t even trying, and it just fell into their lap like a golden ticket to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory.
Of course, ideas don’t work like raffles. But when the question is not where, but how, it’s difficult to give a real answer – unless you’re Hilde Østby, author of the popular
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