Note to self….
Some days I’m writing even when I’m not sitting at the computer typing away. Scenes flash through my head along with fragments of dialogue. Gestational ideas need to percolate.
I grab a pen and write things down on a Post It, maybe two or three that I stick to my desk, computer, keyboard, lamp or anything that’s handy. I’ve had ideas hit me while cooking, sleeping, or even when I’m taking the dogs outside.
Hey, Patty get back here I need that note I stuck on your butt.
I have notes all over the house there isn’t a room in this house that doesn’t have a pad of notes and a pen handy. I also write notes to remind me of things I need to do. Those too are everywhere.
I drive DH and the dogs crazy at times but then they do the same to me so we’re even.
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Doggonedmysteries 
What in the world did we poor writers do before the advent of Post-it’s?
I go to the toy store (AKA office supply store) and drool over the proliferation of Post-its.
They march in not so orderly ranks across a foam core board allowing me to have try outs before sweating over a hot computer.
I love my Post-its!
Don’t know what I’d do without them.
One of my favourite authors (Jane Duncan) wrote that her novels were written in her head while she was doing the garden or baking cakes etc and she only started typing when “it got a head of steam”.
And that’s the truth!