A while back I supported Double Fine Adventure and ever since I have enjoyed watching the update vides, reading the articles about how they've been developing the game, designing and doing art work and such. One of the key points Tim Schafer pointed out in one of the first videos was that if you want to write or design you need to get it down on paper. He urged all those aspiring to this to go out and buy a "project book" and a pen and just start writing nonsense. The more you do this the more you will find rare gems appearing on your pages. Tim described it as emptying your thoughts onto the page to make space for new ideas in your brain.
So, I did this. Well, not quite to the extent of scribbing nonsense, but on busses and trains and during the day, if I feel an urge, I scrawl ideas down inside it. I'm now finding that I look back at some of these ideas and it gets me excited about developing them and thinking of MORE ideas!
I realise I'm sort of repeating myself from a post a few weeks back, but this is a development from then! I didn't have the big pad then! The big pad important to me.
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