Monty by Jim Meddick for September 09, 2012
Transcript:
Well folks, it's time once again to click open the ol readers email file... Timmy B. of Sarasota Florida, asks: where do you get your ideas from? Well Timmy, probably every cartoonist or writer is asked that question from time to time... Some writers like to respond with a joke... When Stephen King is asked where he gets his ideas he answers Utica. But the truth is, there is no easy explanation for where ideas come from... But my personal theory is they come from somewhere deep in the unconscious... The same part of the brain that generates our dream narratives at night, or as Jung once speculated... Um... You didn't really come up with any ideas for today's strip, did you? Is it that obvious?
Barry Longyear came up with an answer as well.“Members of the Science Fiction Writers of America are supposed to answer that question with a post office box in Schenectady. You send in two dollars and a self-addressed-stamped envelope, and you will be sent back an idea.He also claimed that “Roger Zelazny says that every evening he leaves a glass of milk and a dish of cookies on his back porch. In the morning the milk and cookies are gone and on the dish is a slip of paper containing an idea.”It’s in the forward of Longyear’s anthology “It Came From Schenectady”.