{"id":600,"date":"2012-07-04T23:53:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T23:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/index.php\/2012\/07\/04\/blog201204\/"},"modified":"2012-07-04T23:53:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T23:53:22","slug":"blog201204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/blog201204\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbolts and Laser Pens"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"idea-girl\"Okay, I\u2019m probably not alone in this, but it\u2019s maddening how many ideas come to me when I\u2019m not really at leisure to write any of them down. 1 AM in bed in a freezing cold room? Yup. In the shower, driving the car, and cleaning with corrosive substances are other golden places to get a stellar writing idea with little no time to take notes. The worst are song lyrics (which are as elusive as a wild badgers and come about as quietly) but story ideas \u2014 especially solutions to really sticky problems\u2014 can be just as annoying.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re lucky you can repeat them to yourself like a mantra until you can wipe the soapy bleach off your fingers and get to a pad and pen, (or smart phone, or whatever you techno-haves possess these days. Laser-pens, probably). But if you\u2019re like me, you suffer from the dual indignity of having horrific handwriting. I\u2019m only kidding a little when I say my handwriting looks like someone taped a pencil to a rat and then taught the rat to do summersaults.<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, I\u2019m looking at my note-pad right now, and in between the million drawings of Spongebob Squarepants I\u2019ve done to entertain my kids, is something that I almost positive is an important writing idea.<\/span><\/p>\n

As far as I can tell it says, \u201cGrit for nuttha futha dimpoe nimble rint. Kelo didot.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Is it some secret language? Was I possessed and writing in tongues? Which of my book series was this even supposed to be<\/i> for? What does it mean? And of course, there\u2019s the possibility that this was something related to the dry-cleaning or grocery shopping.<\/span><\/p>\n

So until someone invents a brainwave-to-text machine that I can use during my 5am toilet break, I\u2019ll just make sure I\u2019m NEVER be more than 3 feet away from my laptop.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n


\"Monica\"
<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Monica Marier<\/b><\/span> is a caffeinated writer, artist, mother and eccentric. On weekdays, she’s busy working on her books, recording audio files, and composing short stories for her blog. On weekends she’s a co-founder of Tangent Artists.<\/span><\/p>\n

Links:<\/span><\/p>\n

Comics: www.tangentartists.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Follow her on Twitter! @lil_monmon<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Books: Available through Hunt Press http:\/\/www.huntpress.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, I\u2019m probably not alone in this, but it\u2019s maddening how many ideas come to me when I\u2019m not really at leisure to write any of them down. 1 AM […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c40-myblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}