My book is sitting in a drawer (well not literally, but you get the point). Last night I finished reading a (rather disappointing) book that I got from the library earlier this week. And I have plenty of school sessions to keep me busy.
Still, I'm feeling that spark that tells me creativity is what I need right now. My own creativity. I need to write, and I need to write big. I need a new project!
Last night as I was falling asleep considering what my project could be, I had so many wonderful ideas to work with. But of course, because I was half-asleep, I didn't do anything with those ideas. And as often happens when I get a few bedtime epiphanies, I thought, "Oh that's a great idea! There's NO way I'll forget that by the morning!" And that's all I remembered when I woke up...
Which makes me wonder: How many amazing ideas have been lost to sleepy forgetfulness and our own over-confidence? If I've had so many of these flashes of inspiration, surely most other writers do too, right? And how brilliant might those ideas have been if given the chance to grow and develop?
Commitment time! I promise to always write/scribble/chicken scratch whatever ideas come to me when I'm in bed, no matter how tired I am. Sure, those ideas may sit around in the pages of my bedside notebook, untouched for months, years or forever. But I refuse to let them be lost to my own forgetfulness!
Hmm, I need a battle cry here...
Um.
CHARGE!!! :p
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That's an excellent battle cry. Keep it up:) And I hope you don't mind if I borrow it once in a while!
Have a wonderful weekend,
Karen
My memory is about as long as my arm. If I don't write down my thoughts when they come to me, they're gone with the wind....
Yeah, it's definitely worth reminding myself. This morning I vaguely remembered something about an idea I had in the middle of the night. Of course, all I remembered was having a brilliant flash of inspiration and even that I thought of this post, that I should get up and write it down. But for some reason, I consciously (or as consciously as possible in the middle of the night) decided sleep was more important than that idea.
I hope that wasn't my bestseller...
That's an excellent battle cry
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