Comments on: A Lost Writing Idea Is Haunting Me!

By: annew

annew — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:49:23 +0000

Hmmm… MzTiz doesn’t take pens, but she does love to sleep on my papers.

By: Rob Robillard

Rob Robillard — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:42:17 +0000

I lose more ideas that way! They usually come to me at bed time and I’m just too darned lazy to turn the light back on and write it down. Of course, it’s much easier to blame the cat. He’s forever taking my pen!

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:35:08 +0000

Yeah, it used to be that way for me… still is, but not as often. Parts of getting older are not what I want!

By: jorgekafkazar

jorgekafkazar — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:31:48 +0000

I’ve found that if I can retrieve even the smallest part of the idea, what it concerned, any little detail, the entire thing will come back to me. Sometimes, I can recall what I was reading or talking about when I got the idea; then the concept will come back in a few seconds.
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By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:57:05 +0000

I rarely remember my dreams and when I do they are often pretty banal.

By: Aparajita

Aparajita — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:22:53 +0000

Wow. It was nice reading about how other writers capture their brainwaves. Mine come (almost always) in dreams, and these are very vivid dreams. I do sleep with a small A6 notebook next to my pillow, and a pen with that, but sometimes, if it’s dark and I can’t write it down, I type it out on my cell phone as a text message, and save it in drafts. But often, I remember what I dreamed about, and type out everything on my computer in the morning.

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:41:58 +0000

Katheryn, why do you suppose we remember that we had an idea rather than the idea itself… I experience the same thing. Strange.

By: Kathryn Pless

Kathryn Pless — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:46:53 +0000

I have to laugh, I too have wonderful ideas that come from nowhere only to return to the firmament if I don't write them down. Most of mine come when I'm just about to go to sleep. Of course I don't have a notebook and pen near my bed. What would be the adventure in that? In the morning I don't usually remember the idea, just that I had an idea. .-= Kathryn Pless´s last blog .. =-.

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:11:17 +0000

A dream? I don’t think so!

By: jorgekafkazar

jorgekafkazar — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:45:16 +0000

My favorite dream story: This woman used to have wonderful dreams, but could never remember them the next day. A friend suggested keeping a stack of 3 x 5 cards by the bed and writing down the dream as soon as she woke up. One day, the woman was having lunch and remembered that she'd has another of those numinous dreams the night before, in which a great secret had been revealed to her. Not only that, she remembered sitting up in bed and writing down the dream on one of the cards. Excited, she rushed upstairs. Sure enough, the top card had a message scrawled on it. It read: "Hoggamus-higgamus, men are polygamous; higgamus-hoggamus, women monogamous." .-= jorgekafkazar´s last blog ..Tenirax, Ch V =-.