WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 26 -- Sunday

[linaewen]

It's a new week, and I'm here to ask how it's going today in your world of writing!  Have you had a successful day, or has it been less successful than you had hoped?  Did any of the following happen yesterday or today:

• writing?
• research?
• planning and outlining?
• editing?
• posting?
• totally ignoring writing in order to do something else?

Today's discussion is brought to you by all those nights when you couldn't stop composing stories in your head, but were too tired to get up and write them down:

 

Is this something you have experienced?  What do you do when this happens?  Do you pray that you'll remember what you thought of in the morning?  Do you get up and write it down?  Do you keep a pad and pencil by your bed and write things down in the dark in hopes you'll be able to read it the next day?

Comments

[linaewen]

Yesterday I did some research. Of course, it wasn't for any of the stories I have hanging over my head at the moment, it was for something different I don't plan on writing any time soon -- but the idea wouldn't leave me alone, so I did the research and took notes.

This happens to me a lot. If it's too good of an idea to lose, I have to get up and write it down, though that gets harder as I get older! I once tried writing down an idea in the dark, but I couldn't read it in the morning!

[the_rck]

I generally hope that I'll remember in the morning. Sometimes I do, and sometimes I don't. I still really regret the Yuletide fic where I had a fever (both strep throat and an intestinal bug) during the week before the due date. The story I was coming up with was okay but not great (and it's taken me a long time to think that it rates an 'okay'). Then, one night, I had a great idea for how to pull it together and give it some punch. In the morning, I couldn't remember a thing. I'm still not entirely sure that I did have an idea, that it wasn't just a fever dream, but I wonder.

[samuraiter]

Insomnia is a major source of creativity for many people, myself included. Many a sleepless night (or, more often, early morning) resulted in some of my best ideas, and I'm usually pretty good about carrying them over. ... Then again, there have been plenty of ideas that never left my skull, too, unfortunately.

[dirty_diana]

This why God invented smartphones!