Midnight Revelations

The world spins, darkness surrounding me. I lay with eyes closed, my mind adrift, floating ever closer to the shores of dream. At the moment the boat hits the shore, an idea bursts through the darkened sky. I wake up. “That would be perfect”, I think.

There’s nothing better or worse than new ideas popping into your head at the median of night. Yet, that’s when some of the best ideas do come. I can’t count the times I sat up in bed and asked the question, do I write this down now or wait for the morning. Spoiler alert: Almost anytime I trusted myself to remember my idea, it disappeared in the morning.

I’ve learned now that if I want to hold onto any idea, I need to make a note of it immediately. With my new goal of writing as often as I can, I have to keep track of each of my ideas because without them, I’d have a lot of useless words contained within my blog. I’d have blog after blog themed on the idea of “i have no idea what to write about”. The funny thing is you can likely look back on my blogs and see that same theme in almost every phase of writing. By phases, I mean time periods where I wrote consistently.

So now, in the middle of the night, even after having fallen asleep, I’ll drag my tired arm to the bedside, grab my phone, and make a short note of my thoughts. Then, maybe even a week later, I’ll break it down and actually write it all out. It may not have the same fire as the moment of inspiration, but writing does a good job of fueling my mind forward.