It’s been a while. Needless to say, when I started this blog, I meant to use it as an outlet to help my creative juices flow because I’ve been so helplessly stuck with my novel for the past two years. I’ll write a 1,000 word piece of it every two weeks or so, but they’re always random chunks and they don’t always fit into the book the way I plan for them to, or they don’t fit at all. When I sit there and I’ve written something that I later decide I absolutely HATE, it tends to make me also hate my book, because I wonder if I’ll ever finish it.
A lot of the time I get frustrated because inspiration ALWAYS strikes when it’s the least opportune. I’ll be in bed, lying there trying to sleep, and all of the sudden, a scene runs through my mind. Tired me always thinks: Perfect! This is exactly what I’ve been looking for! I’ll remember it in the morning…” And then I never remember. I know that I thought of something, but I haven’t the faintest clue what it was. Sometimes, in my sleepy stupor I manage to fumble for my phone and type out a few words or sentences of what I was thinking about to help remind myself, but usually all I wake up to are several misspelled words that spark absolutely nothing in my memory.
Other times, I’ll be out running errands, or in the middle of class, or brushing my teeth when I realize something amazing. Yet again, it somehow manages to flee from my brain just in time for me to find paper and a pencil, or rush over to my computer to jot it down.
How do you keep track of your ideas? Where and when do you think best?
