On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Nat Russo <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know (yet) if it's the same in the publishing world, but I can speak > about the software development world: You have a significant number of > people who consider themselves "idea guys". This typically translates to "I > hate actual work/I'm not competent enough to actually execute what I'm > imagining/I'm a prima donna" or some such. I love hearing "I'm more of an > idea guy" when I'm interviewing job candidates. Makes my decision that much > easier :)
Anyone who works in IT and doesn't have more ideas than there is possibly time to implement isn't actually WORKING in IT. My boss announced this week that at our next team meeting we'd prioritize the task list for the next six months. I said, "Only six months? Better trim my list before I bring it to the meeting." And that's just the stuff *I* have for my job for maintenance, security, and improvements to existing processes -- never mind the projects we'll be working on to help everyone else implement new functionality to help them with THEIR priorities. So that sounds very much like Ray's example of having more story ideas than he has time to write them all. You prioritize based on whatever is appropriate for your position (what's the most fun to do, what's easiest to sell, what's more critical to help something else work, what's going to keep your organization out of the newspapers for identify theft) and you tackle what you can. More ideas are often in the way, UNLESS they are ideas that will help you wipe out existing tasks on your to-do list.
