Just write the story.  It probably isn't going to be perfect on the first run through anyway so no sense in waiting until it's perfect in your head.  That is what rewrites are for.  

If you don't find the inspiration before you write then it will find you as you write.  

Yup. Just let it flow and then polish it up with a re-write. I've wasted a lot of good ideas before because I got lazy.

--Julio

EXT. INNER-CITY STREET - DAY

DIRTY HARRY CALLAHAN crumples up and throws a one-line treatment at a scared writer backed against a storefront door.

CALLAHAN: Ideas are like assholes, punk. Everybody has one, but that doesn't make 'em special.

I take a page from those folks who draw and write sketches around an idea.  If you take the characters you plan to use and throw them in different situations, it's a great way to learn about them, because you;re not controlling their actions as much as you think.  Mcornetto is right about just starting and then letting the work flow.  If it's the idea you want to tool around with, sktching willhelp because you're doing it for yourself to see what happens if you go in this direction.  On some of the projects I've worked on, I've found doing short 10-15 page sketches from different angles of the story very helpful.  

Sorry.  Story.

Now how sad is that?

EBurke.  

There is a little button at the top of your post that says 'modify'.   If you click that button you can edit your post and change sotry to story.  Try it, you'll like it.

Dude, set yourself the goal of writing one page per day. Once the thing starts rolling it will gather its own momentum. Actually, I have no idea if this is true, but try it out and report back to us with your findings.

But seriously, Woody Allen once said something like: 'We can't teach people how to write, but we can inspire them with great art'.

So read great books and watch great movies and maybe you'll get inspired.

Wow, ain't that modern technology something.

Quoted from jstarbob Hey everyone, I have been stalling on a script for quite sometime now and I cannot figure out how to turn a simple idea into an original script. Bascially I just dont have the inspiration nor the motive to begin... but, I would really like to write this story. What do you guys do in these situations? In advance, thanks for all help provided.

Bad thing about those simple ideas; on their own they're great, but what do you do with 'em once they occur to yout?  It's not really so much laziness as it is you just don't have a story to go with it.  And that happens a lot, to everybody, pro or amateur.

Say, for instance, the idea you have is a particular line of dialogue or even a single, yet complete, scene.  Play it in your head.  Then ask yourself what happens next?  What happened before?  BUILD a story around it.  But don't be rigid; allow that initial idea room to grow/change/shrink/bend or else you're just forcing it.  And if you force it, it'll show.

Quoted from Lon Bad thing about those simple ideas; on their own they're great, but what do you do with 'em once they occur to yout?  It's not really so much laziness as it is you just don't have a story to go with it.  And that happens a lot, to everybody, pro or amateur.

I agree. I've had lots of seemingly good ideas that just keep leading to dead ends. Yet, the buggers keep coming back demanding to be developed. On a couple of occasions I've forced myself to flesh out ideas I wasn't that inspired by, just for the sake of writing, and the end result left me feeling flat.

For me, there's a difference between inspiration and an idea. An idea can just be one of a thousand redundant thoughts that go through my mind, but for some reason I think I need to do something with it. I need to be inspired and sometimes that takes the great art of someone else or for something meaningful to happen in my life.

David Lynch as often been quoted as saying. "Ideas are like fish. Some you take home and prepare others you throw back.