Over the summer (not exactly recent, but close enough) I had this whole day where I had this amazing idea for a story (I'd like to think it was amazing) and I just wrote and wrote and thought and wrote. At the time it seemed spontaneous, like I had just woken up that day with the idea somehow in my head, plopped down there by my own little muse. Whenever I have an idea about something to write I write it down on the closest available item (napkin, post it, my friend's arm) and put it into a box (after the necessary transferring of words from friend's arm to piece of paper) so that I can look at my ideas later when I want to write. Recently, I was going through my box of ideas and I found a lot of similarities between some of the ideas in the box and the story I had started over the summer. Almost all the parts of the story were in that box, just as separate ideas. Epiphanies seem to come to many people this way. So many important things have been discovered by people who just connected things that everyone knew, but no one saw as connected. I think we all have the ability to connect things that already exist and solve problems that at present seem unsolvable. Even though my little story is insignificant in the grand scheme of things, its comforting to know that the way to fix anything, big or small, is probably laying around somewhere. We just have to be tricky to find it.
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Tessa-
I really enjoyed reading this post! It caused me to think about things that I might not have thought about otherwise. I liked how you started with something simple and personal such as your story and connected that to a more universal theme that everybody can relate to. I have had similar experiences to yours but usually never manage to get my ideas down onto paper. I think it would be really interesting to try recording my thoughts and ideas as you do and look back and reflect upon them. And if you ever finished that story I'd love to read it! :]
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