when it rains...bring a bucket

i tried to write this blog a couple days ago, but the site wasn't working.... and it didn't save...:( oh well! i will try remember what i wrote. i know i woke up wednesday morning with excitement about the night before. 

while i'm still writing drafts for my current novel, i started a new one because...well, because i have to keep going. i'm not satisfied without a new work in progress. and it just so happens, this new novel is based on one my favorite friends from my bible study. we met on tuesday night at a starbucks in brentwood, tennessee. we talked until it closed on us (which was relatively early since it was a "school night". :) and then we took our convo to her car...which is where lightning struck!! 

i have never written an outline before for a story, from start to finish, title, etc. but i did that night. and it was magnificent! i wish all my stories were like that!!! anyway, i went back home and tried to flesh out some of the story before i got too tired...and when i was, i turned out the lights and got comfy in the bed. (like a good child) :) 

BUT like a writer, i got idea after idea once the lights were out. and because i'm a wife now, i cannot just turn them back on unless i want to hear about it from my husband. so i stealthily grabbed my cell and wrote the ideas into the notes section. god bless the iphone. 

if you are creative, you know how annoying ideas can be...but also how golden. i used to get (and still do obviously) my best ideas when i wasn't supposed to: i.e. in class, while i was supposed to be paying attention in dance class, in tour rehearsal (different life), while i'm driving, when i worked at a tanning bed, restaurant, etc. and of course...when i'm trying to go to sleep! 

so i got smart and i now travel with a moleskine journal. it's thin, convenient, and it fits in my purse. plus i drew a little representation on it to remind myself that i'm crazy...and that i should just roll with it. 

here it is!

anyway, the moral of the story (no pun), is that when it rains ideas, don't grumble. don't resent them. don't get all huffy:)

get a bucket and catch every single one! it's our bread and butter after all right? and the joy is  that once you get it out of your system and onto a page or cell phone note, you can rest easily and go back to paying attention to what you are supposed to pay attention to! 

i hope you all have a wonderful weekend! i'll write you next week!

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