| The other day I was driving home from work, | | | | And of all that dead time in the car, at the |
| day-dreaming about the story for the novel I am | | | | doctors office, at the Jiffy Lube, how much time |
| currently writing. As I thought about it, new ideas | | | | is spent listening to the radio or flipping through |
| began to bubble up from somewhere inside me. I | | | | magazines adorned with Angelina Jolie's lips that |
| knew it was good, and I knew it would enhance | | | | could be spent expanding or deepening your |
| the book so when I got home, I quickly found | | | | story. These times are opportunities to wear |
| some paper and wrote it all out so I would not | | | | your creative hat while not generating words and |
| loose the essence of what I pictured. | | | | paragraphs, but rather finding or expanding the big |
| I know this happens to all writers, especially while | | | | picture. |
| they are in the middle of a project. What I'm not | | | | You may find a love story that deepens or a plot |
| sure of is how much priority is placed on this | | | | line that has additional back story bringing new |
| time, thinking about your work while you are not | | | | richness to the texture of the work. We have |
| at the keyboard. | | | | only a limited amount of time each day, each |
| We all have read that some of your best work | | | | year, and in a lifetime. In our busy society, it is |
| can come from your mind solving problems and | | | | more important than ever to make time for |
| generating ideas while you sleep. But do we feed | | | | reflection and to let you mind wander. |
| our mind before bed? Perhaps reviewing a trouble | | | | The thing is we know how to do this because it is |
| area or just re-reading your last few pages of | | | | usually how we develop a good idea for a novel in |
| writing before bed might prove a helpful ally in | | | | the first place. Just choose to not stop while you |
| your writing the next morning. | | | | are in the crunch of writing the novel. |