Some Interesting, Fascinating Insights...On Writing

 Full disclosure...this blog entry is basically lifted from a twitter post I saw today, a post I found both interesting and fascinating...

And worth sharing.

Billy Oppenheimer is a writing/research assistant living in Texas. His post today on Twitter focused on Aaron Sorkin, world-famous writer and screenwriter. If you don't know Aaron Sorkin's name, you know the words he's written. He's best known for The West Wing, but also, A Few Good Men, The Social Network, Sports Night, The American President, Moneyball, and others.

In other words...a proven and successful storyteller. 

I'm not going to plagiarize Mr. Oppenheimer's post, other than to say it provides insights into Mr. Sorkin's writing history, also, he includes opinions on writing from Neil Gaiman. Something Gaiman wrote about creativity and boredom really hit me hard.

Perhaps this information is widely known--I don't know. I haven't read a lot about either Sorkin or Gaiman and these stories can be easily found or are something all fans of these writers already know. So, if you one that already knows this stuff, sorry. 

If you're on Twitter, check out the post at: @bpoppenheimer. If you're a writer, or even if you're not, hopefully you find the stories of where creativity comes from as interesting and fascinating as I did.