ABSTRACT
A writer is frequently asked about the basic ideas from which he develops his stories and scripts. The original concept seems to arouse as much interest as its subsequent growth. Often, almost magic powers are attributed to the truly creative notion, as distinguished from one that is unproductive; indeed, it is often assumed that the “good” idea appears full-blown in the writer’s mind, replete with the capacity to grow of itself along inherent and foreordained lines.
