Write it down!
As well as spending our days writing about the delights of the aerospace sector, corporate law or enticing graduates to sign their lives away, some of us at Wordsworks Towers like to pen a bit of fiction too.The problem is, ideas come at you at all times of the day and night. Often you get the most fantastic ideas when you are in the most random places. Great ideas, even, that are then lost in to the oblivion that is your mind.
As well as spending our days writing about the delights of the aerospace sector, corporate law or enticing graduates to sign their lives away, some of us at Wordsworks Towers like to pen a bit of fiction too.The problem is, ideas come at you at all times of the day and night. Often you get the most fantastic ideas when you are in the most random places. Great ideas, even, that are then lost in to the oblivion that is your mind.
The other night, I had a fantastic dream and woke up reeling from it. It was so fantastic I knew it might lead to some impressive story writing project yet to be defined. Alas,I didn’t write it down and now it’s gone! Never to return again.
What I learnt from this maddening experience is that you really should write your ideas down. Creative or not it really is no matter. Your brain only has so much temporary information it can store at any one time and given that working life can be hectic there’s absolutely no chance of us remembering everything we want to.
So in the name of great ideas that are wasted on brains that act like a sieve, buy yourself a notebook or get using your notes on your mobile and make sure that wherever you are, whatever you are doing, that if a good idea for a story, feature or news item brightens up your imagination you have no excuse for letting it slip away.
Archived in the category: Word of the month
Posted by: Gareth Chadwick on Saturday, June 6, 2009 - 0 Comments
How about this:
Humdudgeon - An imaginary illness
The urban dictionary actually gives a few definitions.
1) A person down on his/her luck
2) A grumpy simpleton
3) Someone who sits in the corner of parties angrily eyeing guests, or pervertedly leering at the young female guests
4) Someone who sits in the corner at a party POKING other guests as they walk by…usually with a drink in their hands.
‘Oh my goodness, what a humdudgeon you’ve met there.’
‘That hundudgeon really rubs me up the wrong way.’
Archived in the category: General musings, Write words
Posted by: Gareth Chadwick on Sunday, June 21, 2009 - 0 Comments
