While talking to hubby yesterday, I had a sudden burst of inspiration in mid-sentence. Since we were chatting right next to my computer, I said, "Do you mind? I just had a burst of inspiration and need to write it down."
He looked at me, perplexed, and said, "Go write it down."
When I was finished, he said, "How do you do that? Get ideas like that?"
Ah...that is the power of a writer's mind. It's always working. When I told him I had no control over it, that inspiration "just happened", he accepted my explanation, but I don't know that he understood it.
When I'm deep in writing a novel, my mind is constantly turning ideas over, especially spots that I'm having trouble with, and when I least expect it, boom! There's the answer.
Where's the strangest place you've been hit with inspiration?
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ReplyDeleteI get ideas everywhere. I do a lot of creative work in the shower.
ReplyDeleteI get ideas on the train a lot, or in between cues.
Pretty much anything can set me off, from an image to an overheard line in passing.
Driving. I always get great ideas while I am driving. Can be quite dangerous sometimes.
ReplyDeleteIdeas come to me just about anywhere. The shower's a good place. Driving is good, but being a passenger is even better, I find.
ReplyDeleteHmm, I'm not sure. Like they do for you, they come to me all the time and I scramble to get them down. Have learned the hard way not to count on remembering them later!!
ReplyDeleteProbably the worst place I've ever gotten an inspiration was driving at seventy mph on the interstate. I couldn't write and drive at the same time, and there wasn't any place to pull over, so I just kept repeating the idea over and over so I wouldn't forget it!
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