When you're trying to sleep at night and an utterly brilliant thought for a novel hits you, make sure that the pen you grab on your nightstand to write down said idea, in the dark, on your handy-dandy notebook, actually has ink in it.Tuesday, February 06, 2007
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All right. Enough with the down-in-the dumps posts. I realized that I had way too many of them in the past few weeks and I am bumming myself...
I'll make note of that...now where's my pen!
ReplyDeleteYep, definitely important! I can't keep pens beside the bed for easy access - the kitten makes off with them *g*.
ReplyDeleteLOL--the things I have written on when the urge strikes!!
ReplyDeleteOh, no. I hope you remembered you idea!
ReplyDeleteA pen with no ink would really be hoprrible, especially in my house. The kids rathole all the pens.
ReplyDeleteThe thing is, I didn't discover that the pen had no ink until this morning! It was dark, I was tired, so I wrote down my ideas, then promptly rolled over and went to sleep. This morning I looked and saw all those nice scratches on the paper. I will probably have to take a pencil and scratch over the marks, kind of like my own secret code.
ReplyDeleteOh no! I hope you pressed hard enough to allow for the pencil decoding. Might be kind of fun seeing what you find. Secret Agent Writer!
ReplyDeleteI'm like that too. If I don't write it down, it's gone forever.
I keep my laptop on the nightstand. Things always hit me as I'm drifting off into sleep. So I sit up, pop it open and out of sleep mode (ha! kind of like myself) and type out a few lines.
Loved the post, by the way. It cracked me up first, then the empathy hit.
Worse yet, DO NOT talk yourself into believing you'll remember it in the morning!! I've done that a few times, too lazy to go find a pen with ink in it, and... ZAP!! Idea is long gone and I'm a in a scritch of a mood for the rest of the day...LOL
ReplyDeleteI use a pencil meself. We have some wonderful never-ending ones I got from Staples. Trouble is, they do end eventually, but if it's too cold for ink to run, at least lead still works.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that maddening! I've done that too. Now I keep a pen that lights up when you write with it so I can be sure the ink shows up on the page!
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