Hoarding Words

A strange thought that often goes through my mind when I think about writing here is: Hey, wait a minute, maybe you should not write this but keep it in your mind for later--you might be able to take this and add it to other ideas later for a book someday! I start to think, sure, let's not write today. But I am so bad at keeping notes or a notebook of writing ideas like Anne Lamott does and recommends in Bird by Bird.

I re-read an old post of mine that got the most pageviews so far, and it was a beautiful thought about noise in a coffee shop. I don't think I've thought of that since. I would have just a lost beautiful thought if I hadn't  written it down three years ago.

So I'm starting to think if I don't write in my blog what I'm thinking might be fun to write, then I will loose that beautiful (ahem, or slightly mediocre but interesting) piece of writing! Which would honestly be okay, but less fun. I could keep a notebook or notes but the odds are that I probably won't and might loose the notes/notebook, but I do find more motivation to just write here.

I'm sharing this with you in case you have that thought that is probably procrastination telling you to not work today! Be encouraged. Just write it down. Probably what you write will do two things:

1. Every time you write, writing gets a slightly, slightly bit easier.
2. It most likely  will provide a springboard for more beautiful or interesting thoughts to write down!

And I guess you might be encouraged that you did write something down once and it looked okay--so it'll be motivation to keep it up.