Brain lint, that must be all those things that we don’t remember, until we do not need them.
I am waiting for the day they can plug in the brain and download it to the computer and put it in files so we can find it.
It has always amazed me, the amount of knowledge a writer must have.
Some of my best writing, was letting myself go to the creative side of the brain and string brain lint into a story.
How many people know that donkey’s were fed sour dough pancakes by the prospectors?
Years later when I bought a couple horses, on Sunday, when I always baked sourdough biscuits, I would go out and share one with the appaloosa and he wanted to drink out of my coffee mug too.
Do not wait until you retire to go back to writing, I did and then couldn’t and still cannot and will not.
All the learning was for some purpose, but not a book.
**Do not wait until you retire**
LOL Don’t think “retire” is ever going to be in my vocabulary! It’s amazing what “useless” pieces of info stick. I needed a character name for a cook in one of my novels. I typed Vesta and kept typing. A while later, I’m going whoa—what kind of name is Vesta? I googled it. Turns out Vesta is the Roman goddess of the hearth. Where did I pick that up, and what triggered the memory of it? LOLOLOL Had you asked me point blank what was the name of the Roman goddess of the hearth, I would have drawn a complete blank. Our subconscious is a miraculous thing!
I write—a lot. I have finished a novel in as little as 3 months—if that’s the only one I’m currently working on, which doesn’t happen very often! I write like I read—voraciously single minded.