This is really worth taking a look at if you’re at all interesting in coming up with story ideas.

It’s a transcript of the original story meeting in 1978 between George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Lawrance Kasdan at which they discussed their plans for the character and story of the Indiana Jones movies.

Here’s the link to a blog that tells you all about it, and contains a link to the place where can download the actual transcript:

http://mysterymanonfilm.blogspot.com/2009/03/raiders-story-conference.html

The transcript itself is quite long – the story conference went on for five days! But it’s well worth downloading it if you have any interest in writing, storytelling, moviemaking or anything like that.

Great storytellers at the top of their game. Can you imagine being in the room when all that was going on?

Now I’m wondering about other story conferences that might have taken place that I would want to be part of…

I’ll keep my wishlist to myself for now. Might come to it later. Are there stories you wish you’d witnessed being born?

(By the way, along similar lines, there was a whole play, Moonlight and Magnolias, written about the adaptation of Gone With The Wind. Very funny play, all based on the true story.)

EDIT: I’ve just realised where I first saw this…

…a previous post on this very blog!

Oops.

Sorry about that. But it really is worth looking at. Apologies to my fellow cave-dwellers too for my raving lunacy.

But on the plus side, I’ve baked a cake! OK I haven’t really. I just thought I’d try to distract you from the fact that I’m reading your posts and recycling them as my own.

I hope nobody starts doing similar checks on the content of my books…