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ETA--thanks to BayGirl for being my 100th follower!
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Blogging Challenge N(otes)
Creativity is a fickle creature. That great idea that comes to you while you're in the shower somehow makes off on its fleet feet before you have access to pen and paper. So what do you do when you have the flash of brilliance at an inopportune moment? Do you grab your smart phone and start talking into it? Do you keep a notebook handy in the restroom, your nightstand, your desk, your car?
What do you do to capture those illusive thoughts?
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I file most of them in my head and let them stew for a while. Then, if they've taken any kind of form, I'll write them down and go from there....
ReplyDeleteI wish I could remember that long, Words Crafter. I forget them.
ReplyDeleteNice graph! :) If it's a big idea, it doesn't slip away. So I leave it there and if stays and I'm still excited about it, I'll jot some notes down. It's when I get a great first line, or hook like for my query, or something like that - that I try and write it down right away.
ReplyDeleteI'm the same as the others, I don't forget them for the most part. (once in awhile I will forget a great sentence I thought up though).
ReplyDeleteI will jot down notes as soon as I'm able to so I do try not to go too long without doing that. :)
I mostly end up just storing things in my head and probably forgetting 75% of them. Then certain stuff I'll write down in notebooks or scraps of paper and now increasing in a computer file.
ReplyDeleteLee
Tossing It Out
I used to jot down ideas in a notebook, but my notebooks are always a mess of drafts, scribbles, and to do lists so ideas kept getting lost. Nowadays I'm a huge scrivener fan. That computer program changed my life. I put my notes on the corkboard function, and I always know where they are.
ReplyDeleteThat outline looks pretty good! I keep notes where ever I may be. My cell. My bed. At the library.... I don't stop. :)
ReplyDelete♥.•*¨Elizabeth¨*•.♥
I forget them before I remember to write them down somewhere. That plot outline looks intense, maybe that's why I don't write fiction, it looks hard to keep it all straight and I have a terrible memory.
ReplyDeleteI'm a notebook person. Usually six to eight per novel.
ReplyDeleteOoh, and I'm follower 99. Only one more to get to 100!!
Oh, I've got notes scribbled down on every surface, ramblings into the cell phone, I even texted myself an idea when I was away (no paper, no pen) recently.
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I keep notebooks, but scraps of paper get pressed into service too when a wonderful idea creeps up on me and I don't have a book handy.
ReplyDeleteOoh, good ask. I've got notebooks all over, but I usually keep repeating it until it's engraved in my head. If I lose it, it'll either return, or it wasn't that great of an idea.
ReplyDeleteI heard you were teetering on 99, I came to push you to 100!
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I run back home chanting the idea, if I'm outside. I now walk with pen n' index cards. I write on anything these day...fun post!
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting my blog and I write all my notes in these journals that I have at home. They have magnetic closures which I love.
ReplyDeleteTeresa
http://icecoldpenguin.blogspot.com