[stylist] What's on your mind?

[Jacqueline Williams]

Robert and all,
It is intriguing to hear all of the methods about how you collect and
retrieve ideas for writing. Mine are similar. I have sheets of used typing
paper all over my house and use a black felt pen to make a word or note,
show it to my aide to read to me, and put it in my file called "commonplace
book." I do this with magazine readings, poem-a-day, where I may copy and
paste a good line that I want to remember. I even may get on a rhyming word
kick and start a list. One of the most effective for me is to leave my
computer on stand-by overnight, and if I wake up thinking of something, I
get up and write it.
We all do get on, don't we?
Thanks for all of the ideas.
Jackie


-----Original Message-----
From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Robert Leslie
Newman
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 8:29 AM
To: 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [stylist] What's on your mind?

When I get a flash --- I've started a new habit --- grad my iPhone and tell
CIRI to take a note! Or remind me later to --- 

start grab 

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 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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