20+ book ideas a day?

[tvrgvryen]

Each day I think of 20 or over (possibly even more.. I don't keep count) legitimate, new ideas for science fiction novels. I don't record them because I don't plan to actually pursue them. I do like to write—essays, poems and such—but working on lengthy novels, at least physically, seems like a drag. I don't mind doing so mentally; it's personally more convenient and obviously quicker. It's like there's a typewriter inside my head that creates the story as I think and revise it. I actually have a secret but impossible aspiration because I don't have the patience, of becoming like Isaac Asimov, with hundreds of written sci-fi and science books.

Is this strange at all or common and I wasn't aware of it, at least amongst writers and SF fans? Is this INTP-like in any way? Do you do this too or something similar?

 

[Ex-User (8886)]

When I don't have anything to do, I create my next imagined world. Some are Si-fi, some fantasy, and other, every world is different, but sometimes they have something in common.

but, it's less than 20 for day, maybe 1/day or rarely

 

[Helvete]

I continually do this, not necessarily sci fi, but a broad range of subjects. It's funny, usually I'll get gripped by an idea, or several and actually have misguided hopes to actually carry them out. I never do, not even writing down points to base the story around.

I did actually start to write a poem the other day whilst I was on a bus; I stopped after a friend I'd not seen in a while caught my attention. I'd only managed to write about 2 lines.

 

[Steven Gerrard]

Your OP is why I have considered developing a new system of writting, something possibly that could be drawn like a picture, something that could be edited after by adding pen strokes to what is already written to indicate whether something (ndividual articles of conjecture that help make up the hyopthesis) is true or not.
Beauty and fluidity and how I see beauty and intelligence as on a spectrum instead of opposed to each other and how all truth supports other types of truth, and how life should be a fluid artful improvisation even in the world of the hardest science is part of this line of thinking I idealize as 'art' and may one day achieve these visions.

step one - hypothesis
Step two - using 'the code' as I have called it, the action of the pen and how it stimulates the mind to figure out something about the code and build on it. A code that builds itself.
step three. Later I can superimpose with pen strokes whether or not individual pieces of the hypothesis were correct.

I really need to organize if I ever want to communicate but for now I suppose this digression will do as I just want to empathize.

I dig man.

 

[Ex-User (9062)]

Get a dictaphone, or at least lay down the general points on paper.
Collect those ideas in a box.
Keep them for a while, don't look at them for a few months or years,
but keep adding new ideas to the pile.
At some point in the future you will be able to use these ideas constructively.

 

[Helvete]

Your OP is why I have considered developing a new system of writting, something possibly that could be drawn like a picture, something that could be edited after by adding pen strokes to what is already written to indicate whether something (ndividual articles of conjecture that help make up the hyopthesis) is true or not.
Beauty and fluidity and how I see beauty and intelligence as on a spectrum instead of opposed to each other and how all truth supports other types of truth, and how life should be a fluid artful improvisation even in the world of the hardest science is part of this line of thinking I idealize as 'art' and may one day achieve these visions.

step one - hypothesis
Step two - using 'the code' as I have called it, the action of the pen and how it stimulates the mind to figure out something about the code and build on it. A code that builds itself.
step three. Later I can superimpose with pen strokes whether or not individual pieces of the hypothesis were correct.

I really need to organize if I ever want to communicate but for now I suppose this digression will do as I just want to empathize.

I dig man.

I don't think I really understand what you're on about. Is it anything like a mind map, but starting off with a picture that gets more complex and builds outwards like normal. Alternatively if you started off again with some picture, only it's bare bones though you can add more detail to it (adding pen strokes) and start outwards with a vague idea, where the interior could be any number of possibilities which would change the overall look of the picture once it's finished. I don't know... Could you explain? lol

 

[Helvete]

Get a dictaphone, or at least lay down the general points on paper.
Collect those ideas in a box.
Keep them for a while, don't look at them for a few months or years,
but keep adding new ideas to the pile.
At some point in the future you will be able to use these ideas constructively.

Or pick them out randomly and invent connections to make them work together; an unpredictable sequence of events where you can only control the details.

 

[Steven Gerrard]

I don't think I really understand what you're on about. Is it anything like a mind map, but starting off with a picture that gets more complex and builds outwards like normal. Alternatively if you started off again with some picture, only it's bare bones though you can add more detail to it (adding pen strokes) and start outwards with a vague idea, where the interior could be any number of possibilities which would change the overall look of the picture once it's finished. I don't know... Could you explain? lol

Just like OP in his thread. I feel like saying "maybe latter'. It was great fun to even get that nonsensical to some mess out there. Maybe that's a selfish use of a forum, but maybe you know what I mean.

Instead of right to left in chronology, it could be written non-chronologically, and read non chronologically taken in all at once and moving from some point to another like normal writing.

Instead of linear in chronology, it could be written to include the proper space for latter regression and maybe a system of adding strokes to a letter too...

If I ever get anything like this done it will be alone miserable and bloated in my basement. I'm gonna try and get right to it. I'll post something in this thread if I ever get it done. For now it's a bunch of ideals and ideas floating around that sometimes get me really excited. I once thought about making a video game in which the player is walking on the 'the code' which is a language the player has to figure out, as well as the physical world he lives in to solve puzzle and progress. The type of game one has to use a pen and paper to figure out. At some point the player can input the code itself into the game which changes the physical world he walks on. All other sentient beings in the game are also the code, if ya know what I'm on about. Picture like a 2-d (up until the player has figured out how to make it 3-d by his inputs and actions) Mario Bros like game.

I did my best, but all I came out with was more digression.

Can I hear some of your ideas Regixie?

 

[Ex-User (9062)]

Or pick them out randomly and invent connections to make them work together; an unpredictable sequence of events where you can only control the details.

Yes, exactly!

 

[Helvete]

Just like OP in his thread. I feel like saying "maybe latter'. It was great fun to even get that nonsensical to some mess out there. Maybe that's a selfish use of a forum, but maybe you know what I mean.

Instead of right to left in chronology, it could be written non-chronologically, and read non chronologically taken in all at once and moving from some point to another like normal writing.

Instead of linear in chronology, it could be written to include the proper space for latter regression and maybe a system of adding strokes to a letter too...

If I ever get anything like this done it will be alone miserable and bloated in my basement. I'm gonna try and get right to it. I'll post something in this thread if I ever get it done. For now it's a bunch of ideals and ideas floating around that sometimes get me really excited. I once thought about making a video game in which the player is walking on the 'the code' which is a language the player has to figure out, as well as the physical world he lives in to solve puzzle and progress. The type of game one has to use a pen and paper to figure out. At some point the player can input the code itself into the game which changes the physical world he walks on. All other sentient beings in the game are also the code, if ya know what I'm on about. Picture like a 2-d (up until the player has figured out how to make it 3-d by his inputs and actions) Mario Bros like game.

I did my best, but all I came out with was more digression.

Can I hear some of your ideas Regixie?

This makes much more sense to me now. A chaotic chronology which will make sense no matter what order it's read in: I'm envisioning this as a masterpiece of artwork maybe covering an entire wall and being highly decorative whilst telling a very informative but abstract story. Maybe it can be about having an idea to turn this idea into a game using the code you'd input as you play. You should definitely do this; or something similar. I await patiently.

Yes, exactly!

Wait, I'm not sure if this is what you already meant, or just having a collection of ideas which would be put together cohesively at a later date. So the ideas would still be a random collection, but the order wouldn't be. As opposed to what I suggested.

 

[Steven Gerrard]

"Art documenting itself"- it's own process, while it's being made. Is often what's on my mind. You helped me articulate that phrase just now. Thanks.

I'm just gonna go ahead and put some more out there.

5 screens that are all completed works in themselves. That can be re-arranged on top of each other, beside each other- in anyway possible. Or separate sculptures that can be combined in different ways to build different things. All these things are maybe just analogies for ideas I have about art. The type of thinking I am trying to communicate.

Anyways have a good one everyone.

Regixie please try and remmember some of your ideas.

 

[Ex-User (9062)]

More or less, you expressed what i implied.

 

[Helvete]

"Art documenting itself"- it's own process, while it's being made. Is often what's on my mind. You helped me articulate that phrase just now. Thanks. No problem. I tend to view it as art being a mere extension of the creator. The subject may well reflect a microcosm of the artists theology of art creating/mirroring itself in different ways; documenting itself put more simply.

I'm just gonna go ahead and put some more out there.

5 screens that are all completed works in themselves. That can be re-arranged on top of each other, beside each other- in anyway possible. Or separate sculptures that can be combined in different ways to build different things. All these things are maybe just analogies for ideas I have about art. The type of thinking I am trying to communicate.

This is a neat idea. Would the individual pieces be able to do this, or a fraction of what you're describing within themselves? Ultimately it would present an infinite depth to the art, with stages where you can clearly see what's going on at any perception or view point. Almost like an indefinite loop of Russian dolls.

Anyways have a good one everyone.

Regixie please try and remmember some of your ideas.

I am yellow.

 

[tvrgvryen]

@Steven Gerrard

I'm sorry for the late reply. I didn't know that my post had responses. At the moment, I can recall just one idea. 'Tis very briefly a story revolving around the phenomenon of time travel and the philosophical aspect of love. I'd rather not elaborate on it because it may be amateur, uninteresting and trite, which the rest of my ideas probably are as well. By "new ideas" I mean differing from my preceding ones. I'm sure many of mine have already been thought of and/or published. Please do show your writing / concrete thinking system after you complete it and share your game here if you ever create it!

 

[Variform]

You might use writer software. Like Writer's Cafe.

My mind is always on too. So I get loads of inspirations. I also do not write it all down. I figure, if there is so much of it every day, the wellspring never runs dry. I am never without ideas. I bought a dicta-phone for my dreams. Mini-tapes. No longer used, we can get mp3 players for it.

But remember just what is novel and new, the rest can go. If I could write books, I'd be like an Asimov alright. So many ideas, stories that I can merge...