Is a good idea enough?

I'm sitting here, still feeling a little blah (taco Bell ruined my stomach last night, thats what I get for eating there) but I want to keep posting. I think the more I force myself to maintain as close to a post a day, the better.

I started wondering about whether or not just having the idea was enough. I'm not talking about the obvious stuff like writing and marketing the idea though. I think part of it is the willingness to realise the idea is itself malleable. So many people I've met ask for ideas and shoot them down nearly immediately, because deep down, they don't think the idea needs to be changed; to them, the idea is already perfect.

That's probably why you'll always see me mentioning my sources, or talking about whether or not I think a new idea is particularly cliche. I perhaps overthink my ideas sometimes, but I rarely assume the idea is itself perfect and indestructible. I doubt any story was (with the exception of Colridge's Kubla Khan, if you can believe the stories of its creation) and every author has had to retool, rewrite, rework what they've already done. I have no doubt that every author has, at some point wiped out dozens of pages simply because those pages no longer worked.

I'm definitely rambling, as I'm quite tired. But I suppose what I am shooting at is this: I think the willingness to change my own creation reflects a dilligence to simply create the best story, regardless of the time it takes. I could be sugar coating it for myself, who knows, but its certainly how I think for now.