I recently stumbled across Brandon Sanderson's online class that's been circulating around for a while and there was an interesting story he tells about Jim Butcher and how his Codex Alera series was created. Here's video of Butcher discussing it below (question starts at about 1:23):
So that begs the question: which is better, a great idea or great execution?
I personally think a good writer can even take the most terrible idea (as Butcher did) and make it into their own story worth telling.
Do you think you could write an awesome story based off really terrible or cliched ideas? Or do you think writing has to be birthed from inspiration that strikes you with an awesome idea or concept that then propels you to greatness?
Are there any ideas that are so terrible or cliche' that not even the most genius writer could make them good?
So that begs the question: which is better, a great idea or great execution?
I personally think a good writer can even take the most terrible idea (as Butcher did) and make it into their own story worth telling.
Do you think you could write an awesome story based off really terrible or cliched ideas? Or do you think writing has to be birthed from inspiration that strikes you with an awesome idea or concept that then propels you to greatness?
Are there any ideas that are so terrible or cliche' that not even the most genius writer could make them good?
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