Write down your thoughts before you lose them!

Thoughts are scattered, Bits of ideas sparkle here and there. They are sparse and come to you in pieces that need to be ironed out and developed.

That's why they have to be planned out and put in a framework that make sense and are in a logical order.

Writers receive mental ideas at an instant. They flow into the brain; but they can leave just as fast as they come in because the mind is like a ticking clock, it is constantly being replenished. Time is not constant because its hands keep moving, lost to be replaced by other seconds, minutes and hours.

Thoughts, ideas, and concepts are basically the same. If you don't write them down at the first instance you think of them, they are replaced, or became enmeshed in a 'thinking brain' that keeps accumulating as a whole part an aggregate of other ideas.

There is a fleeting process involved. These ideas come to you in the most strangest of places and situations. They can come when you are leaving the office, in your car, eating supper, at night just before going to bed, or would you believe it in the toilet!

That's why you have to be prepared. Many writers carry with them a little notebook. So when a thought or ideas register in their mind, they can jot it down as fast as possible, to make sure it stays their and doesn't go away or replaced by another.

We often overlook the continuing power of the pen and pencil in the age of the computer but with the notebook or paper they can still be up a great sustainer of the thoughts that travel in the cerebrum, keeping them in little boxes to be developed when the time is right and ripe.

Great writers, journalists, and chroniclers always have their notebooks and pens handy because they knew their brain is ticking time mover of events. There was many a time when I would think of an idea, a headline or a lead when I am just about to go to sleep only to forget it the next morning.

Over the years, especially when I worked at a newspaper, that if an idea of a lead of a headline come to me, I'd quickly get out of bed and quickly write it down. The same goes for a story idea which needs to be expanded the next day.

Writing is a perishable commodity. That's why the notebook with the pen and pencil are needed to be at hand so they can help the hand to jot dot what the brain is thinking. Today with electronic notebooks becoming readily available at our finger tips the type of writing and its quality should become more dynamic colorful and exciting with full of buzzing ideas.