Great Ideas Last Five Minutes

Since I like to write stories I tend to imagine a heck of a lot. The problem with having an imagination is that you are always thinking up cool new ideas you want to use. Unfortunately, you cannot always use them. That is when you write them down to use later, but you know you never will. That is a sad fact about life.

The other problem with having too many ideas in such a short period of time is that you don't have the time to use the ideas. Thoughts have a shelf-life of less than a second. By the time I get a pen and paper, or open Notebook or Word on the computer that thought will be gone.

And what if you do get that idea down and pass it along? Well, people are only going to see or hear it for even less time than it took for you to do all of that. This means there is a short shelf-life in production and implementation of the idea.

But to be optimistic, you have to recall that sometimes that idea will get through and stick to someone else like glue, even if just one. Somehow that makes it all worth it.