Where ideas come from
I don’t read a whole lot of big public blogs, twits, streams, or whatever the latest social media thing is called. There’s only so much time and only so many spoons, and I don’t want to waste them. At least, not on public blogs – there are so many other places for me to waste my time and spoons. The very few I do read, however, are full of awesome.
Some of them have absolutely fantastic commenters. The kind of commenters that make up a community. The kind of commenters who are supportive and genuine and open about themselves. The kind of commenters who are pretty damn good with words and end up saying awesome things.
The kind of commenters I almost feel guilty borrowing ideas from.
The idea factory in my head
The thing is, I don’t use them as-is. They go into the back of my head, and get tumbled around for a while with all the other ideas. They get polished and remixed and wrapped up with images. Sometimes they find callbacks from ideas I had or read about or heard years ago.
Not all of them come back out. Some are still rattling around back there. Sometimes one pops up to the front and says “Hey! I’m done! Let me out!”
By then, it’s usually filed off the serial numbers. At least, that’s what I tell myself.
Hey! I’m done!
I’ve had a couple of those ideas pop back out lately. I got one mostly done last week, and have two more in the development stage. One will probably end up with some variations that are still tumbling in my head.
I’m going to try something new – making some things available in a free way in addition to products on the POD sites. There may even be a Kickstarter soon. Maybe I’m feeling guilty about the origin of my ideas, maybe I want to be able to give something back to the communities I’m in, and maybe – just maybe – I think the ideas are cool enough that everyone should be able to get some.
Stay tuned, round three of What Am I Doing With This Site starts soon.
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