Hahah… if you’ve got to resort to scribbling notes in the shower, I fear you may suffer from even shorter term memory than scrupulous notetaking will aid :)
I need those! Do they work on windows? I get way too many ideas when I’m in the car. Unable to pull out my notebook (though that hasn’t always stopped me from trying).
I bought a voice recorder for the car, for that purpose. However I never seem to have it in the car when I need it :D
You should put your office together so there are glass surfaces on all the walls, ceiling, desk, chair, and floor, then fill it ALL with insane scribblings and spirals. But that’s only if you really just want people to leave you alone… like, forever.
Maybe I’m crazy but there is something appealing about that. When I was in high school, I used to sketch, write, and doodle on a piece of paper until every centimeter was completely covered in either text or drawing. There’s a graphitti-deco meme behind all this, a kind of reveling in your own nonsense. :)
Should I get some shower crayons, I can see the walls looking like something out of the movie “The Shining”.
Stanley Kubrick would love it.
btw -I used to do the same thing with scraps of paper…
It must be a writer thing. I get some of my best ideas in the hot water mist. I call them, “thinking showers,” and I take a lot of them when brewing up story ideas or when I get stuck on old ones!
So far it’s working out really well. Update post coming soon. Waiting to write a few more tiles so I’ll have a decent photo. I’ve had a lot of realizations about the shower writing process itself that have given me neat insights on things that drive my creativity.
August 8th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
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July 16th, 2006 at 12:24 am
Hahah… if you’ve got to resort to scribbling notes in the shower, I fear you may suffer from even shorter term memory than scrupulous notetaking will aid :)
July 16th, 2006 at 1:29 am
It’s more in the name of fun, although I do get quite a few ideas in the shower…
July 16th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
I need those! Do they work on windows? I get way too many ideas when I’m in the car. Unable to pull out my notebook (though that hasn’t always stopped me from trying).
I bought a voice recorder for the car, for that purpose. However I never seem to have it in the car when I need it :D
July 16th, 2006 at 3:53 pm
They should work on windows. I think they make window crayons too.
I was thinking of using a voice recorder myself.
July 16th, 2006 at 4:22 pm
You should put your office together so there are glass surfaces on all the walls, ceiling, desk, chair, and floor, then fill it ALL with insane scribblings and spirals. But that’s only if you really just want people to leave you alone… like, forever.
July 16th, 2006 at 8:25 pm
Maybe I’m crazy but there is something appealing about that. When I was in high school, I used to sketch, write, and doodle on a piece of paper until every centimeter was completely covered in either text or drawing. There’s a graphitti-deco meme behind all this, a kind of reveling in your own nonsense. :)
July 20th, 2006 at 9:19 am
Should I get some shower crayons, I can see the walls looking like something out of the movie “The Shining”.
Stanley Kubrick would love it.
btw -I used to do the same thing with scraps of paper…
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July 20th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
Michael,
I’m going take an update pic once the wall is covered in writing. Should be pretty cool looking. :)
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:19 pm
It must be a writer thing. I get some of my best ideas in the hot water mist. I call them, “thinking showers,” and I take a lot of them when brewing up story ideas or when I get stuck on old ones!
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:23 pm
So far it’s working out really well. Update post coming soon. Waiting to write a few more tiles so I’ll have a decent photo. I’ve had a lot of realizations about the shower writing process itself that have given me neat insights on things that drive my creativity.
Update coming soon…