(businessinsider.com)
TIP 5: "Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea forever." - Will Self
I have done this, and it is so effective. Ideas and observations practically leak out of you when you have a notebook to catch them. It's amazing how many more ideas you can capture this way. Once I took my little notebook to the mall while I shopped with my teen. I watched people and scribbled away. My daughter refused to admit that I was her mother, but I got so many interesting ideas for characters! Caution: Don't follow people around when you do this...that's just creepy. Sit on a bench outside where your kids are shopping and write about the people who walk by. It's a little more subtle and not as likely to get you arrested. :-)
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