Ideas are mostly worthless. It's all in the execution.

Take Game Of Thrones (ASOIAF): is there any ground-breaking idea in there? No. It's just a really well-written series that gets us invested.

A book could be based on something really original, or not, but that doesn't factor in the quality or success of the book.

This applies to pretty much any creative field.

You can get a ghostwriter but the idea here is that YOU pay THEM for writing it. No offense but unless you're already in the industry with a reputation and success, nobody cares about your ideas because the truth is that EVERYBODY has ideas and EVERYBODY thinks they would make really good novels/movies/games.

So if you think the idea is so amazing but don't have time to write it, pay someone else to write it for you. Don't expect to get money for having thoughts.

You could try hiring a ghost writer.

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You've already the obvious answer that ideas are worthless and execution is everything. The more nuanced version of that is that every idea is a bad idea initially.

Even good ideas are bad ideas to begin with. As soon as you start trying to work out your idea, you run into all kinds of problems that need to be solved.

And that's fine. That's really what any creative who produces finished products does. They refine a superficially good first idea over and over until it is an actually good idea that results in a finished product.

There's countless good ideas that turned into shit final products because people screwed up that process. And there's plenty of absolutely fantastic products that started out as a very unremarkable ideas that got polished to perfection.

But someone has to do all that work and that person is the real artist. Trying to sell an idea is like trying to get someone to pay fine art prices for a block of stone with the argument that the sculpture is in there somewhere.

>Trying to sell an idea is like trying to get someone to pay fine art prices for a block of stone with the argument that the sculpture is in there somewhere.

Perfect metaphor

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