When you ask the monkey's paw for the confidence of a mediocre white man, this is the guy who gets tapped.
I have told so many people, there is no money in being The Idea Guy. Creatives... have more ideas than we have time and energy to execute. Ideas, even great ideas, aren't super unique, not at the level you can describe them in a pitch.
Execution is all.
I don't want to knock good comic book writers, because there are specific skills there, but: there are more visual artists who can write well enough to make a comic than there are writers who can draw well enough to make a comic.
The more layers of artistic expression you add between "telling me your idea" and the finished product, the less valuable the idea itself is and the more artistic skill matters.
There's no such thing as a ten million dollar idea. There might be a finished product that's worth ten million dollars. But no one knows up front what it will be.
And the vast majority of books don't make that kind of money.
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