Go through your database of story ideas and find the ones that really grab you. See which ones have enough clout to make into a full script. Work on the Dilemma, Enneagram, and the 36 Dramatic Situations to pull the basics together. Bubble sort them to find which are your top 50. What grabs you about them? What are they missing? How can you inject something into them to make them defy gravity? Are they entertaining? Outrageous? Fun? Truly scary? Moving? Compelling? Electrifying? Would a producer kill to own that idea? Would it change an audience forever? How powerful an ending can you conjure for it? Start to really work this list of ideas that you've been generating every day. This is a big part of the job--to have great stories in the pipeline.
Remember, you want ten ideas that are fully fleshed out, vetted, and ready to pitch professionally at any moment. And you should have 100 good solid ideas that you're working on, wrestling with, and beefing up. Play with dynamite, not firecrackers. Get in over your head. Hollywood is littered with half-baked, recycled dogshit ideas. 99% of all scripts are rejected. You need attack as a storyteller. Get your killer instinct, your story sense, and your craft as a dramatist up and running, and vault into that top 1%. Crush the competition. Most of them are rehashed lukewarm ideas with horrifyingly bad execution, and you can leave them in the dust. There's always room at the top.
