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I have numerous notebooks and an even greater number of scraps of paper with thoughts and ideas scribbled on them. Each collection of words hastily written in case I forgot them; desperately recorded to remind me later of that moment of insight.

Some of them are barely a few words; some are a few paragraphs; some are quotes that created an explosion in my head when I read them; some were written 20 years ago; some were written more recently; some are more or less complete; most are starting points waiting to be fleshed out and developed.

Unfortunately, they induce a sense of guilty responsibility. I can't throw them out - each one was written with the hope and expectation it would prove useful - and yet, they pile up, cluttering desktops, shelves and any number of random spaces.

This, then, is my solution. I have decided to place them online, so I can search through them if I want to.

Whether I ever will is less important than the feeling that I could, should the fancy take me.

If anything here triggers ideas for you, then good for you. Probably. Unless you have the same problem as me...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Excellent idea ... in the meantime I carry around three moleskines, and it's getting wilder and wilder. But always such a relief to jot everything down ... Always LOVE LOVE LOVE reading your thoughts and inspiring insights!!!

Kim Ayres said...

Sounds like you should be doing the same kind of thing, Conny - do let me know if you start up a similar blog :)