Idea Recording
Our brains are always working no matter what activities we are doing.
Ideas and thoughts are fleeting and unless you catch them immediately, they
will be lost. There’s no way to predict when a great idea is likely to pop
into your mind so you must be prepared at all times to record them. Once you
have established the habit of idea recording you will be surprised at how
many good ideas you actually think of each day.Books on writing refer to “your journal” or “your notebook”. It is essential
you start using a system to record your ideas, thoughts and observations.
These notes will be your primary source book in your creative and humourous
adventures.If you want to write fiction, non-fiction, comedy or anything else for that
matter, keeping a journal is a good idea. Ideas (and humour) area all around
you, and ideas can appear (and disappear) very quickly. Be receptive to the
world around you. There are times when you may hear a snatch of conversation,
or see a funny sign. Unless you capture that thought immediately, it will
be gone in a matter of minutes.It is important to be always ready for idea recording. The mind never stops
chattering with all sorts of thoughts bubbling and percolating up from the
subconscious mind into your conscious mind. Ideas and memories collide against
each other in the subconscious melting pot and it is necessary to be ready
at all times to capture those combinations that jump out. They just have to
be captured. Imagine your ideas are butterflies flying out into the open.
You need a net to capture the butterflies and not let them get away.
