If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Elton Pruitt wrote: Now ideas are constantly coming to me and it's more a crowd control issue, making room in my brain for the ones with potential, so they can percolate there for a while, and letting the others just dissolve away.
I still try to right everything down, even if it's not useful now...because who knows what concept it may bolster a few years down the line.
Right now, I'm experimenting with embracing the magic and trying to actually gain some small bit of control (perhaps influence is a better word) over it, via a Boston Red Sox cap that I only wear when writing.
I realize that may sound insane but so far, it's working for me.
Doesn't sound insane to me. It worked for Pavlov, it can work for us. I do the same thing through location, music cues, etc. Train a habit into your brain--a signal that means "time to work." You're smart in doing it with something portable that you can take anywhere and can (theoretically) be a writing aid anywhere.
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but so far, it's working for me.
