After the Short & Sweet Theatre performance on Friday, a young Chinese woman in her 20s approached me and asked:

“Are you the writer of ‘Almighty Might’?”

I replied that I was, and then she looked at me intently and asked:

“How did you write that? I mean, when I first saw it I was just blown-away. And I wondered how anyone could think of that. I never could have thought of that. How did you go about writing that?”

I suddenly felt like that deer in the headlights. I didn’t know how to respond. I stuttered a little, shrugged my shoulders, and replied:

“I don’t know. It just came to me. I don’t know.”

She finished out her very nice compliment and then I began to think about it. Where did the idea come from? Why did it just work? It’s not a conventional script by any means. And I realized that I answered her correctly, I have no idea where it came from. It just came.

And I’m glad that it did.

Ideas are a writer’s live-line, and luckily, for whatever reason, it’s been a very fruitful season these last few years.

I’ve learned that when the ideas do come that you don’t question them, you go with them and discover where your creativity can take them.

It’s been fun!

Here’s hoping for many fruitful years to come!