There were more ideas than I thought (Part 1 of 3)
Over the years I have found that ideas for creative projects often happened while I was writing down my thoughts in my journal. If I didn't do something with the ideas, they were “lost” because I don't read past entries in my journals.
This year I had a plan: I would mark the idea in the text with a symbol (I chose a smiley face) and also record the page numbers in front of my journal so I could find them later on.
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| The inside cover pages of my 2023 journal |
Most of the time ideas related to a book I was busy with were incorporated into the story within a few days because they were part of a story close to finishing. But they were not the only ideas. Then I had a brainwave: maybe I should check out my list and see what happened to these ideas I had this year.
A few surprises popped up:
1. There were more smiley faces than I had page numbers on my list. This meant that I was so into the flow of writing down the idea that I forgot to add the page number to my list.
2. While working throught the list, I also found ideas where I didn't add a smily face. Since I mentioned that I don't reread my journals, how could I know there were more ideas? The names of characters caught my eye. Since I don't use the names of actual people I know in my stories, it wasn't hard to figure out that I was “thinking” about a scene in a book.
3. I even had a few ideas related to my business. The ideas themselves didn't surprise me, but that they came to me while I was writing about non-business things was the surprise.
I am not going to give away my ideas, but I thought to summarise the number and types of ideas I had.
1. Book ideas - ideas for a new story: 3
2. Book ideas - ideas for scenes in stories already in process: 14
3. Books - cover ideas: 3
4. Art ideas for new/finishing paintings: 9
5. Art ideas for experimenting: 3
6. Art practice ideas to learn/master a new skill or technique: 2
7. Writing/journal organising ideas: 3
8. Organising ideas - studio and home office: 1
9. Bookbinding and other book art/craft ideas: 1
10. Business ideas: 2
11. Other: 3
TOTAL: 44 😳
In Part 2 I will expand on what happened with these ideas.
Until next time!
💜🇿🇦Linzé
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