[arg_discuss] ToW: Idea Graveyard

[Jeromy Barber]

A musician told me an interesting Stevie Wonder story last week.  Someone
asked him how he had so many hits during a certain period of his life...
There were like three years where he just couldn't miss.  Stevie explained
that during this period he was writing 10 songs a day, and not just music
and lyrics.  He was writing full arrangements... horns, drums, BGVs, the
works.  He said it was just a numbers game at that point.

I think you elaborate as fully as you can your graveyard ideas and then,
like Stevie, it's a numbers game.  The best ideas will be obvious to you and
others you are collaborating with.

Jeromy

-----Original Message-----
From: arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org [mailto:arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org] On
Behalf Of Andrea Phillips
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 7:55 AM
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Subject: [arg_discuss] ToW: Idea Graveyard

As I'm sure many of you are, I've grown quite a graveyard of ideas I
absolutely love, but that didn't ultimately fit into the project at
the time. (Budget, schedule, theme -- you know how it is.)

What do you all do with these ideas? How many do you have? Have you
ever had the opportunity to recycle one, or do you prefer to just keep
coming up with new ones? How many do you have floating around, anyway?
And: Any that were so niche they'd only have fit into that one
project, but you're bursting to talk about it because it would have
been so much fun? :)

-- 
Andrea Phillips
http://www.deusexmachinatio.com
Words * Culture * Interaction
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