How do you come up with something "original"?

[milo]

The short answer is:  you don't.  Sorry.  There's nothing new under the sun, as some dead bloke once said.

I would say dead indeed since the quote is over 2,000 years old.  The English language did not even exist when he wrote that statement. Here's the thing though, I'll bet if you took a time machine and transported him to today he would be revising that statement with a blush on his face.

Every generation spends too much time lamenting the impossibility of creating anything original - well, except for the ones that actually create something original.