Endless Ideas




Think! Imagine! Listen! Write!

 

I find it humours how sometimes the greatest ideas come to me during the strangest hour of the day. I have queer story ideas pop in my mind during the middle of the night, the ideas that stir me out of bed. Or I'll have book projects provoke my mind when I'm running on the treadmill, the kind of thoughts that require a notebook and pen. Then there are the times where I'm purely exhausted and a random sensation pops in my mind, the kind where I must fight to think of something else. At first these thoughts used to bother me, but I now realize that my mind is performing a normal routine. My mind is only telling me that something creative has sparked my interest. Do I choose to listen at all times? No, I fail this act all the time as a matter of fact. I'll be in class, reading books, listening to my teacher, in the shower, driving down the road, taking a brisk walk when the ideas strike me. I used to write the ideas down on my hand, the idea causes me to chuckle now. But if we all think about it, the greatest ideas come to us at an odd time of day. The time of day where we cannot but help to chuckle. We are either occupied or simply lazy to adhere to those thoughts. I used to be annoyed, more irritated. Those ideas had a quest, their own quest was to distract me until I listened to them.

Yes, I gave in and listened. I carry notebooks with me and jot down the idea when it arises. There are times where I will type a message in my phone and save it, only to look later on and remember what it was about. I'm thinking of storing a water proof template in the shower...I have to admit, I often think best at that time. My thoughts give me imagination, creativity, and energy to think new things. When we give our thoughts the freedom to creativity, something great can be composed. Choosing to ignore those ideas and putting them aside can be the greatest temptation, but also the greatest risk. We are hampering our mind, the thoughts that roam around. I have heard too many times from people who would love to write, who have the time, but no ideas. Their ideas have been killed, shut down, and put away.The first time an idea arises and you put it away and try to think of it later, it won't be the same feeling as the first occurrence. Stepping into this new realm, this new height of catching your ideas is one of the greatest tasks we can achieve. How we all love stories that captivate us, must I remind you that the author captured his thoughts first and then shared them? Wholesome ideas, thoughts that mean something great and powerful, are worth the time thinking. The thoughts and ideas that destroy the mind, are worth killing. We must be able to decipher between the two.

Words are food. Our words eat off our ideas, and the readers gain from the ideas. It goes hand in hand, quite complex, but in the same thought, understandable. Pen the words down, mark them in any way that you can. It may not make sense to anyone else at first, but you will know what you're thinking. Having that intimacy with our own mind seems ironic for we all believe that we know our mind. No, no we don't. Understanding the mind would mean you listening to the first ideas that come alive. Free your mind, give it space, more space so more can be thought of. Write from your soul! Think as you've never thought before! Explore with those imaginative ideas, the ones that form the being within you. Live your life to think of those thoughts...the ones that design a purpose and inspiration.

"Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea."

~Jim Rohn

Only the Beginning



Write your thoughts first!



What is writing and what does writing have to do with life? Ah, such a question I hear far too often. Writing is more than composing school papers, essays, resumes, and term papers. Writing can be life. As a matter of fact, writing is life. Everything resolves around writing. There is such beauty in words, words that have meaning, life, vibrancy, and joy. Writing has been around longer than we can think. People have been writing since the day they wanted to express their thoughts. Life and emotions come around when a pen is placed to paper. People have the desire to express their emotions, few can exact this task.

 One cannot explain the beauty and freedom in words. Joy and sorrow can be expressed, as well as anger and happiness. The pen is the tool, our thoughts are the master--we choose what to write and how to write such things. It is an unexplainable task, something so exhiliarting, perfect. It is a mystery, but also a miracle when we allow our thoughts to roam.

Writing is beautiful. It's a task that takes us away from every day life. There are the moments where we have to escape for a time, may it be five minutes, twenty minutes, or a whole hour. Writing exacts this for us. It causes us to be higher in thinking and brighter when it is complete. Writing is one of those things that take practice. It takes time to let go, time to cast our thoughts on paper. At first the hands and mind aren't in sync, but over time the two go hand-in-hard, hardly inseparable. Writing must come from the depths of our souls, you must be real to your own self before you can accomplish this practice. Just as practice makes perfect, writing daily makes your writing perfect. Eventually you will notice that you can journal or jot down ideas wthout much thinking--it happens. You will soon become a person lost in the land, the mysterious, winding, miraculous, creative land of writing.
I encourage you to pick up your pen (or computer/laptop in this sense) and write away. Write for ten minutes nonstop, anything you can think, anything on your mind. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it is for ten minutes. When the ten minutes are over, stop. This is only the beginning to a life-long journey of excitement, pleasure, and an emotional race. Writing, let it become part of your life. Live life as though everything you do is being written down...make it important and interesting. Make it worthwhile!

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

~Benjamin Franklin