[stylist] What's on your mind?

[Barbara Hammel]

I'm not near this efficient.  That gives me some good ideas as to how I 
could save brain drain.  *smile*

When I get words in my head that I like, I get totally distracted from life 
and am constantly bouncing them around in my head.  After mulling it over 
some, I get out my Pac Mate and start composing.  When I wrote on paper all 
the time, I used to save unfinished works or little bits I'd write down but 
these days I don't.  If I don't like it, I just delete it and start over 
again.  A good practice?  Probably not because I may toss out plenty of good 
stuff for another time.
I've even learned that if I start composing a poem at bedtime, I better 
write it down because no matter how I try to remember it in the morning, 
I't's gone.
Barbara




Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
-----Original Message----- 
From: Lynda Lambert
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 8:08 AM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] What's on your mind?

For everyone,

For those of you on FaceBook, you know that the message bar greets you every 
day.  Mine looks like this:

" Lynda McKinney Lambert,
"What's on your Mind? "

Today, there are a couple of questions on my mind.  Instead of posting them 
on my FB page, I will ask them here on the writer's list.

On my mind,  are TWO questions today.
This is  what I am  thinking about lately.
I wonder how you manage to do two things.

One:
my "flashes" of inspiration come all the time when I am doing other things 
and cannot get them down on paper or on the computer.  Often, if the flash 
of inspiration is not captured, it is gone.  How do you capture the thoughts 
you have at those moments when you are maybe on a treadmill or working out 
at the gym; walking the dogs in the park; riding in a car or traveling; 
speaking with a friend; etc.
My memory fails me if I don't grab and idea when I have it. How does this 
work for you?

Two:
Where do you store these "flashes" or "titles" for yet unwritten work so you 
can go back and use them later to begin the writing?

For the second question, here is how I am currently doing it. I am curious 
if I could be doing it more efficiently - any ideas?

Once a thought captures  my attention for awhile, I put it in a computer 
file. I list it under the title or in a sentence form.  I have a list of 
such unwritten titles for pieces, saved individually as word documents.

For example:  Aubergine;
May Morning; Moon Girl with Stars; Mitered Shells; the Morning Mail, etc.

In time  I have additional thoughts on a particular title. I will go back 
into that file many times and put  my research notes, and accumulated 
ideas.  It is like putting money in a savings account; it all adds up 
eventually. In my way of working, it nearly always begins with just one word 
that stays with me and haunts my thoughts over a long period of time. But, I 
think if I had not written down that word, initially, it would have left and 
gone to the next person who is paying attention to it. Words are like that. 
Fickle!



Lynda Lambert,MFA




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