Where do ideas come from? In writing classes we do all sorts of exercises drawing from outside inspirations like news articles, photographs, snippets of overheard conversations. I have blank notebooks filled with bits and pieces of ideas, most I'll never use, but it's reassuring because if I'm writing something and I get stuck I can turn to the notebooks and flip through them and possibly find a line, a moment, an image that clicks and carry on from there.
Now, I'm not saying this short (gender neutral) monologue from "The Frank Diary of Anne" came from a random scribbled thought that passed through my head while walking down the street, but I'm not not saying that.
ANNE:
You know, people in our society are a lot more trusting than you think they are. I mean, do you ever think about people, like not specific people, but people in general, and just think wow, nobody trusts anybody? ‘cause they do, I mean more than we think. You HAVE TO to live in our society. Like for example, I was walking down the street the other day and I passed this guy on a ladder. You know he was fixing something on the front of a building. And he was up there on this ladder, people walking by down below, and as I passed him I had this incredible urge to just push the ladder over.
But I didn’t. I mean, that would be certifiable right? Just push over a ladder that some random person is standing on for absolutely no reason. But you see, my point is, A LOT of people walked by that guy on the ladder and NO ONE pushed it over. And I certainly couldn’t have been the only one who thought about it.
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