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Swapping Your Husband For A Notebook - Writers Need Sleep
by Dead Beat on February 08, 2007
Dear Dead Beat,
I keep a notebook hand at all times for jotting down my ideas. Very often these come to me while lying in bed at night. I have to get up and turn on the light to write them down. My husband is not so pleased about this, but I am afraid of losing my ideas if I leave them until the morning.
Anonymous
Dear Anonymous,
Which would you rather: lose your ideas or lose your husband? Okay, okay, it was a rhetorical question.
You know, Dead Beat believes that you go to bed to rest and sleep. That is a necessary part of the writing life too. Jumping in and out of bed writing down ideas harms this part of the writing process. Ideas (see Dead Beat Does Not Believe In Inspiration), quite frankly, are a dime a dozen. Once you get used to creating them you will have more than you can ever write about.
Good husbands don’t come so easily.
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