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Uninspired: Stop Staring at Me Blank Word Document

By Geno McGahee

I do a lot of closed captioning as a side job and it tends to monopolize my time and drain my creative energy. So, as I sat here and wondered what I would write about for this month’s issue of Crankit-Up, I was drawing a blank. I needed inspiration. Many filmmakers that I know have told me they go out to the coffee shop or the mall and they just people watch and get inspired through actual events. What is their story? What are these two strangers up to? How can I draw inspiration from it? Considering that I had nothing else, I decided to try this approach and began people watching.