I woke up at 3 in the morning last night and composed a perfect post. It had a witty title, read with ease, made a good point in just enough words, was sure to engage my readers, and was laid out in my mind. I was so certain that I would remember the whole thing in the morning that I didn’t write it down. I awoke this morning with no clue about that post. It apparently has disappeared into the ether of my brain.
It is one thing to forget why I came into a room or to forget to return a call in “just a few minutes.” But this, I assure you was a perfect post. And it is gone. No matter how I lay down on the bed again(maybe posture will bring it back) or huffed and puffed around the kitchen fixing breakfast(maybe it needs a distraction) I could not grab hold of a single thought to retrieve it.
Well all I can say is I guess you have to believe me. I certainly do!
Saved By Words 
There have been so many times that I have thought I’d simply rely on my memory and have been let down. I’m trying more to write things down as I think of them.
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It would help if I were nearer to paper when inspiration strikes. It always seems to be a random times when I am doing something else.
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I believe you, Elizabeth.
But are you sure it wasn’t 3:17 in the morning? 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I rather think it was!
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Old writers beware. I think, 3:17 is a good time to keep camcorder on. I remember a ghost movie with nightly movements of a woman on camcorder! 🤣🤣🤣
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😄😄
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Welcome to my world.
I keep a notebook and pencil under my pillow these days (and of course, rarely get inspiration since putting them there).
If nothing else, writing down all those things I remember around 3am that I forgot to do and MUST do in the morning helps me get them out of my head so I can go back to sleep.
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I would have to really remember that I was going to forget to reach for the paper. That seems to be the weak link in my thought process.
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What a loss !! but it happens.
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Thankfully not too often.
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It happens to me all the time, thinking surely I will remember something so profound. Nope. Gone into oblivion.
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I get ideas in the shower that are gone even as I dry off.
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Washed away, I guess! 🤣
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LOL
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We believe you!P&B
Sent from my iPad
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Excellent.
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I hope it comes back to you! I often have inspired ideas that vaporize, though usually not a full blown post.
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This was unusual for me too.
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I’ve had the same experience so many times, I no longer trust myself to remember that “great idea” I had in the middle of the night, so I force myself to get up and jot it down — usually just the ‘perfect title’ for a post I’m working on, or the “perfect word” that eluded me to replace a word in a sentence which didn’t seem quite right when I wrote it. If I try to “jot down” more than that, it’s hard fall back to sleep….but there are times you’ve got to “strike while the iron is hot” and keep writing. After all, what’s a little loss of sleep to ‘artistes’ like us!
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If I wasn’t so certain that I would retain the words, I would write them down. I can easily deceive myself at 3 am it appears.
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Do I laugh or cry with you on this?
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Agree with me! LOL
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I’ve lost poems galore that way. On my morning walks (although they are temporarily suspended at the moment) I now use my phone to record any snippets I think of. I have, in the past, repeated a few phrases over and over to keep them in mind, only to meet someone, say good morning, and forget the lot!
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Well at least in our minds we are superb writers!
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Absolutely!
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I’m sure it was one of the best you ever composed in your head.
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I am so glad you know that also!
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I have ideas for posts all the time when out walking. I compose the post. It’s always gone by the time I get home. I sympathize, Elizabeth. I’ve missed reading your words!
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Perhaps it will pop into your head when you least expect it. Then again, perhaps you just dreamed the whole thing and you weren’t awake at all???
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To have a dream stay in our memory it has to be there in our thoughts on waking for at least 20 minutes otherwise it’s completely gone.
I’m sure it was one of the best you have ever composed Elizabeth.
Blessings,
Jennifer
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Oh, I believe you. The post will come back to you at some odd time, when you least expect it. I now write everything down. Hubby laughs when I save envelopes just for that purpose. I call this aging.
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LOL! Can I ever relate. I’ve taken to keeping a notebook and pen on the nightstand next to my bed just for occasions like these.
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Unfortunately, this keeps happening with greater frequency to me now. I have started writing things down, even if I’m in bed when a thought occurs. It permits me to go to sleep. Now, if I could just remember where I left that damn note?
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Ah, Elizabeth, and this is exactly why I’ve been know to get up in the middle to the night in order to write down my sleep invoked idea. My husband thinks I’m quite mad.
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🤣🤣🤣
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Hi Elizabeth, having now written an adult novel based on real historical facts, I know how difficult it is to do all the research and make sure the whole book rings true. I think it is more difficult to use real characters as you are then restricted by their lives rather than a fictional character in a situation which leaves more scope for invention for the writer. This book sounds good.
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I don’t know how I managed to leave this comment on the wrong post – I must have changed screens somehow by mistake. This comment relates to the previous post and book review.
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Buahahahahaha! I’ve had this happen to me before, so what I do is I text it to myself!
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That is more organized than I am in the middle of the night.
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Hahah, understandable!
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Honestly, I’ll never sleep then. I just text the name or the key point. The rest I remember then
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I can see how that can wake up the brain a little too much. 😂
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True Alexis. WP is the reason behind my newly found sleep disorder. I keep waking at night to type new posts! 🤣🤣🤣
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Oh wow! You’ve gotta get a handle on that. 😂
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My husband works as my handle, he ‘huffs and puffs and blows blows blows’…until I drop my phone.
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Haha, he sounds like my cat! He headbutts the phone out of my hand on a regular basis. 😂
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😁😁😁
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It will come back to you in a few weeks. I think it needed to think itself through. May be it is not ready for the limelight yet. A lot of my stories are written at night when I’m too tired to type, lost the next morning until a word, a situation, a conversation brings it back–complete and improved. Just wait.
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Good to know.
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I believe you. You got me there😊
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How is baby #2?
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Baby is doing great. Arrived last month. Thanks for asking😊
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How busy and yet happy for your family.
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Thanks 😊
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No no no. You, dear Elizabeth and all your readers have completely missed the point. You DID write the perfect post. Look at it! Listen to all those bells ringing in heads all over the world— boing boing boing, just like me. And seriously, I’m done with draft posts and 3am scribbles. The post that actually happens is usually a spur of the moment, grab-it-on-the-run notion.
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Perfect comment too.
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