Write it down

Dale WoodsJanuary 14, 2019

If you’ve just remembered something long forgotten, something that’s been on the tip of your tongue or the back of your mind, write it down. Don’t tap the side of your head and say “I’ve got it all right up here.” During the process of revising my story through several drafts I came across whole paragraphs I had forgotten I had written years before, stuff I wouldn’t be able to recall.

No matter how small the detail, write it down. After a while you may look through your drawer full of details and snippets and ideas and discover you have an entire story waiting to be written.

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Justin says:

January 14, 2019 at 7:25 am

I am guilty of this. Thank you for the wise advice.

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A quote from Grommet Hunter:

There is something joyful and satisfying about ramming and ramming the square tip of a three-foot crowbar under the edge of something that needs to go away, and shoving on the crowbar, separating the old thing from the wall, grabbing with your gloved hand at the gap you’ve just created and dropping the crowbar, damn the clanging noise it makes when it hits the floor. Then both gloved hands are on it and the thing you’re tearing out is shrieking and groaning but you have no pity and it hits the floor with a crash of defeat and what you have before you is a blank slate of a wall that could stand some patching. And you will patch it of course you will. But something new will go there. Something that matches your creative vision. That’s why I was there. The shattered cabinets made a wretched pile in the back yard. Like something a tornado might have dropped there.