A while back I blogged about writers writing ideas down “anywhere”, including writing on pianos if necessary. And in that post I mentioned that I’d been trying to figure out how to deal with all the great ideas I come up with while in the shower, which seems to be the absolute best place for me to get inspirational brainwaves.
Well, my dear, wonderful mother read that post, and without mentioning it to me, she set to work to solve my problem. She’s obviously a bit cleverer than me, and figured out that waterproof notebooks exist, because there are plenty of professions where people need to take notes while out in the weather (less in the shower, perhaps!), and she set about finding one for me. With her supersleuth web skills she tracked them down at the slightly obscure Forestry Tools store in Sydney and ordered me a few.
I can definitely report that having a waterproof notebook in the shower is the perfect solution for capturing my writing brainstorms. And there’s something quite soothing (if not a little wasteful) about standing under a steady stream of hot water, scribbling my newest idea down. The notebooks themselves are quite amazing – even if they end up soaking wet, they dry out perfectly, and without erasing any of the pencil notes. And just knowing I have one sitting there has freed up my thinking in the shower – I used to stop my train of thought if I was on the track of a good idea, knowing I didn’t want to lose too much of the inspiration – now I can keep thinking and make notes whenever necessary. Thanks Mum!
[...] might remember how my mother solved my “shower thinking” problem by finding me some waterproof notebooks which I can use to jot down ideas that come to me while I am in the shower. Well, there are now two [...]