Don’t listen to music let your mind wander. I’m not the only person to think so, by the way. I can’t stress enough the importance of taking walks. Take a walkįor me, the best way to get ideas-the best way to cure writer’s block, for that matter-is to take a walk. Remember: When making notes, you’re adding emotion, not just description. Why? Because pictures just get lost on my camera roll, while saving them as notes means I can write comments beneath the picture itself. I didn’t take the picture because it looked nice, but rather because something about the light and dark made me think of how the seasons were changing and time was passing.
This is a picture of a tree near my house. That’s why when I see something interesting, I don’t just describe what it looks like, I describe how it makes me feel. Sol Stein said that writing is about communicating emotion. Good writers don’t just describe what scenes look like, they capture the emotions inherent in those scenes. There’s something about capturing a scene live. Why my phone? Because I nearly always have it with me, and because it has a camera. I still do, but most of my captures nowadays are via the Evernote app on my phone. Capture emotion, not just descriptionĮvery writer carries a notebook with them for recording scraps. It’s about preparing the ground in which inspiration can take root. It’s about other 99%, capturing all those little scraps that make up a novel. You don’t need to capture inspiration it fills your world. Everything about your story becomes clear, and you walk with a spring in your step for the rest of the day. When inspiration strikes, the world pauses, and the sky lights up. To slightly misquote Kate Sanborn, writing is 1% inspiration and 99% hard work.
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