Writers have a very unique problem, because we tend to have two worlds: the world around us and the world inside our heads.
"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
I love that quote. :D
Anyway - good post! Hmm. I don't tend to write up my ideas till they're fairly well-advanced - I used to, and then I got depressed at seeing how many ideas sat all over my hard-drive, and decided not get anything down unless I was actually going to write it. Possibly not the best decision, but we'll see. These days I tend to brood and chew at my ideas, maybe write down a couple of key words on a bit of paper if I'm busy when I get the idea, so I can go back to brooding and chewing when I have time again. It's kind of like creating a mental compost heap. It has to stay there until it's so seething it's about to blow up, and then I'm allowed to write.
To be honest, I've probably lost a lot of ideas by doing it this way, but ideas are a penny the dozen. It's writing the ideas that's the hard bit! And if an idea is enticing enough, it will probably wander back to me at some point.
And of course a few times a month there's an exception to my rule, because I am nothing if not an exception-making-girl. LOL. XD
(Also, I find telling people about an idea makes me lose affection for it. Because they invariably sound SILLY when I say them out loud. :/)
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"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
I love that quote. :D
Anyway - good post! Hmm. I don't tend to write up my ideas till they're fairly well-advanced - I used to, and then I got depressed at seeing how many ideas sat all over my hard-drive, and decided not get anything down unless I was actually going to write it. Possibly not the best decision, but we'll see. These days I tend to brood and chew at my ideas, maybe write down a couple of key words on a bit of paper if I'm busy when I get the idea, so I can go back to brooding and chewing when I have time again. It's kind of like creating a mental compost heap. It has to stay there until it's so seething it's about to blow up, and then I'm allowed to write.
To be honest, I've probably lost a lot of ideas by doing it this way, but ideas are a penny the dozen. It's writing the ideas that's the hard bit! And if an idea is enticing enough, it will probably wander back to me at some point.
And of course a few times a month there's an exception to my rule, because I am nothing if not an exception-making-girl. LOL. XD
(Also, I find telling people about an idea makes me lose affection for it. Because they invariably sound SILLY when I say them out loud. :/)