Just Ideas

One of the great things about writing a daily blog is inspiration vomit. Any thoughts that pop into your head suddenly become a grand new topic you can write about. Not only can you write about it, but you have a purpose to study it out more, analyze your thought process, and expand on how it affects you personally. The downside of these wonderful ideas, they come at random times, sometimes extremely inconveniently.

I wrote a blog recently, not sure if its posted, about ideas popping into your head at midnight and the difficulty of trying to remember them the next day. The other day, I had an idea pop into my head in the middle of a movie, and it was awesome, except because I was watching a movie, I didn’t write it down immediately. Now, as I sit and try to recall the exact thought, which I must remind you, it was awesome. It’s not quite the same. So here I am, left with a subpar idea, knowing it was something much cooler only moments earlier.

Part of this idea process is the note taking. Initially, I would think of an idea, write a title, and then come back to it, hoping I would understand myself. I was wrong. More than once, I sat looking at an obscure title and just thought “what in the world was going through my head?”. So I reverted to adding a brief description of why I had come up with the title and the thought that inspired it. It’s worked out great, although I admit it’s a challenge writing from old inspiration.

What I’ve been left with is a plethora of ideas and only a few fully written out blogs. The other day, which is the phrase I will now have to use because I don’t know when this will get posted, I was looking for a post to blog and realized I only had two or three blogs that had fully been written. The other fifteen ideas were just that. A single sentence written on the page, begging for explanation.

So that’s what I’m left with. A folder full of ideas waiting to be expanded on. It’s nice to have them all ready to go, yet daunting to think of how little I’ve actually been able to expand on the many thoughts that race through my head. I won’t stop now though. After all, I am inspired by Stickers and I can’t get a streak going if I stop writing now.