 So today I thought I'd talk about a particular problem that affects I'd say writers of the wiki a little bit more often than it affects other kinds of writers That's because a traditional writer can usually work with the same idea for months or even years But a wiki writer someone who writes flash fiction has a capacity to take an idea from Conception to finish product in less than a day and if they're very very lucky They might even get it to plus 100 rating before the end of that day So let's briefly talk about ideas and you might be expecting me to tell you what is and isn't a good idea But there are no hard and fast rules for that and really it's gotta be something that grabs your Imagination and gets the riding wheel spinning in your head and because everyone's different That's impossible for me to define for you But the truth of the matter is that if you're one of those people who thinks that you never can get a hold of Good ideas you're probably wrong because often you have a great idea and I don't think you recognize it Or you see somebody else with a great idea that they're not all that interested in writing and you don't recognize that for what it is If you have a lot of conversations with creative people, you're gonna hear the word if a lot Wouldn't it be cool if or wouldn't it be good if somebody wrote a book about this or wouldn't it be nice if someone made a movie about this or Man wouldn't it be funny if whenever you hear those kinds of phrases and that means those phrases and variations on them Stop for a second and listen to yourself or to the other people It won't always be an idea that you can sink your teeth into and it won't always be an idea that you can get excited about But if you keep your ears and your mind open, you'll find that they're great ideas being discarded by you and everyone else all day long And this is generally how I pick up ideas The best version of that story for me was back in January of 2015 at the apex of a bit of a hot streak for me Article-wise I was sitting in IRC chat just relaxing and this one user kept complaining about how Carthage was just the absolute worst And we asked them what they were talking about and turned out they were playing a game called Total War Rome 2 I don't even know what that game is, but they kept saying Carthage was pissing them off So another user said man, wouldn't it be great if there was an SCP that made you hate Carthage And I dropped everything I was doing and I sent them a PM over chat and I said yes, it would be so let's write it And the result of that is SCP 2513 and it's one of my favorite works that I've written for the wiki It's rated at plus 238 as of this video's production and this reinforces another point I was making earlier what makes an idea appeal to you is going to vary depending on who you are That's completely normal and it's completely fine I love history and the idea of writing a funny article about Carthage stuck out to me Not every if is going to work But if you're listening to others and yourself, you'll have your pick of at least half a dozen ideas every single day I'm gonna stop for a moment and thank my patrons for this month without whom this kind of content wouldn't be getting made at the junior researcher tier the sherm Jonas Huber nectar Daniel Ruiz, Lerker GG, Rockney Matthias, Jake Korpschinski All pledged for a dollar a month and also plaguebearer who is going above and beyond the junior researcher tier by pledging $2 a month Thank you very much Then there's at the researcher tier Faye for $5 at the agent tier Dr. Letters and Samuelism for $10 each and finally at the doctor tier dead Danny for $20 a month Thank you to all of you for supporting my content and if you'd like to help out check out my patreon at patreon.com Ford slash D Samarian and if you can't help out on patreon be sure to subscribe and hit the notification bell next to the button So you get alerted when I upload new videos follow me on Twitter at D Samarian and share this video with your friends Thanks for watching