Do you get your best writing ideas while out walking?
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Welcome to another installment of ‘You Too?’ where I ask you a writing related question and you share insights about your writing life.
Today, I thought we’d do a poll!
I’m sure all of us get ideas when we least expect them. This is because most ideas come to us when we’re relaxed, while our mind is concentrating on something other than our writing problems.
So I’m interested to know where you get your best ideas. I’ve added some of the classic places to this poll, but if you have a different place then let me know and I’ll add the option. Feel free to select multiple options if they apply.
The next question is, how do you record those ideas?
Again, I’ve listed some of the common options, but I’m sure there are plenty more I haven’t thought of so tell me what I’ve missed in the comments. Feel free to select multiple options if they apply.
I look forward to seeing the results!
June 3, 2014 at 8:09 am
I am horrible at writing ideas down. Therefore, I may be called the writer who gets ideas while writing. That’s my best time to be creative. I must write to get ideas to pop out of this half-dead brain of mine. Reason is, I am usually surrounded by children or some uneventful problem I am trying to deal with. There it is!
June 3, 2014 at 10:28 am
Thanks for those insights, Drew. Sometimes I am similar, only getting ideas once I have focused my mind on the task at hand.