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a Quick Creative Practice

~simple practices have profound impacts~

Write Down All Your Ideas

Writing it down does several important things:
• • keeps you from forgetting
  fleeting ideas, no matter how inspired, are easily forgotten
• • gets it out of your head so you can evaluate it
• • gives it validity and weight,
  the idea is no longer only an idea; it has reality because it’s on paper and can be seen
• • can begin to compare with other inspirations you’ve written down
  visualize how this idea might combine, enrich, work in ways you wouldn’t have thought of otherwise
• • saves it for another day
  maybe it’s an idea whose time has yet to come

Originally published in the April 2005 issue of The Practically Creative Quarterly, theme: inspiration