Writing Down Your Ideas

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The ideas I have when I'm awake I never have problems remembering. My dreams, on the other hand slip away really easily. So when I wake up after one, two, three really good dreams that are possible plots...

...which happens to me more often than one would think. So far, I've created two new creatures for my 'verse, gotten two complete plots and two partial ones...

...I lie in bed trying to get them set in my mind (usually with a keyword system) then jump up and grab the first piece of paper and write them down.
 

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ACEnders said:
Last night, it took me forever to fall asleep. My mind was a mess between reality and my writing. Not a bad mess, mind you, but a mess nonetheless.

I was thinking about my WIP, and a really great sentence popped into my head, right where I left off last.

My husband was sound asleep. He'd had a really long day at work, had to work late and pick up his boss from the airport who's flight was delayed by 2 hours, and he was knocked out.

The closest pen and paper was in the bathroom (where I was last writing down my ideas). If I could just get out of bed without waking Nathan and gently close the bathroom door, I could write down that sentence. But I knew if I got up, he'd wake up, and I didn't want to do that.

So instead, I said the sentence over and over and over again in my head as I finally drifted off to sleep, hoping that I would remember it in the morning.

I didn't.

Has this ever happened to you guys?
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Actually, this did happen to me once, when I was about fifteen years old. I was typing away at a manuscript around 9:30 PM on a school night, when my step-father came to the door and told me to go to bed. I said I would, just as soon as I finished my sentence. He refused to let me finish the sentence, demanding I go to bed IMMEDIATELY.

So I went to bed with a half-finished sentence in the typewriter carriage. The next morning (don't ask me how I was able to pull this off) I got up, immediately moved over to the typewriter (it was on a coffee table in my bedroom), and finished the sentence exactly as I had planned the previous night. I had not written down anything before going to sleep.

Amazing. Especially so, as I haven't been able to duplicate that kind of memory since! :e2smack:
 
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