The creative ache

I have a problem. Actually I have several but for now we’ll concentrate on this on specifically.

I’m a relatively creative guy, I have fairly reasonable web design skills and have managed to keep up with trends despite it not being my day job anymore. In fact creating websites isn’t really the problem, I know what I’m doing from a design perspective and have a strong grounding in enough web technologies to pull most things off.

The problem is when I get an idea in my head for something that is beyond my skills. I’m not a great web designer, developer, designer, writer or anything really - I’m just ‘good enough’ to keep myself in gainful employment.

However I do have a head full of ideas, and more often than not the ideas I have are either too ambitious for my limited time, well beyond my skills or a mixture of both.

That’s where the Creative Ache comes in. I see an image in my head I want to create, an animation I want to animate or a website I want to build - or even just a full concept I want to build.

Unfortunately my design skills aren’t advanced enough to put the image on to paper or into photoshop, my animation skills are limited to jumping stick men and my php, ajax, mysql skills are limited to manipulating someone elses code.

What I really need is the money to be able to write my idea out, I can put proposals together fine and can easily voice what I’m looking for step by step, and then pay someone to create it.

Alas I don’t have any money and I have an animation I need to create soonish, a whole load of web2.0 project ideas that could be a LOT of fun and about four books I’ve half started writing. Not to mention the play, poems, songs and tv shows.

Maybe I should just write out my ideas as proposals and sell them to venture capital companies for a fixed amount, then they can go and turn them into reality - is there a market for ideas?

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