Imagining that extra preparation makes for better writing is like assuming that the more books we read on weight loss, the thinner we’ll become.
– The Courage to Write by Ralph Keyes, page 91.
Ahem… um. Guilty on both counts.
I used to have another blog, primarily for myself, where I collected random bits and thoughts like this. Since that blog is no more I guess I’ll have to start collecting them here.
I love collecting. too much, perhaps. I used to be a post-it-note-a-holic. I had thousands of them stuck everywhere. It was a terrible system for keeping any thought bubble worth keeping. In a raging sweep of cleaning, I tossed most of it all out because the notion of typing it all down at that point seemed overwhelming. Now, I have a post-it-note program…which I rarely remember I have and just write using the ‘notepad’ program on the computer and keep them all in a file I call Text stuff. Not very organized, am I?
I like the idea of you posting your thought bubbles here was what I meant to say… briefly. 🙂