Keep a voice recorder by your bed, they’re fairly cheap and don’t take a ton of batteries. In my experience they really only capture 50% of the idea, because much of what you say can be difficult to translate into word form once the moment has passed, and the magic of writing completely inspired is gone and thus so is surprising yourself with even better angles. But hey, half of a great idea is better than none of it.

Of course assuming this wasn’t entirely fiction, but judging from your bio you’re a writer, and I know writers blend fact and fiction often!

oh, how i know this feeling all too terribly well. its a shame isnt it. of course i always find he best ideas come to me in inconvinient times and places where getting them down in paper form is downright ludicrous such as the bathub or waiting for the train, and most definitely at work.
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I freak when this happens. I run around like a chicken with her head cut off searching for a pencil and paper. How awful and wonderful it is.
LoA

Oh…my…God. How much I hate that feeling. And I must say, Tad Winslow’s idea isn’t bad.
Great capture of “a writer’s torture.”

The rare second person story where all the statements have been true for me in that order. n_n;

You’ve been watching me go to sleep? Kinda creepy, dude.

Awesome story, really. Very true. :D

I get those ideas at the most inconvient places. At restaraunts they end up on a napkin. When Im in the bath and I get a good idea I rerun it in my head over and over. If Im in bed usually the idea is gone because once Im in bed I stay there. Some writer I’ll make. LOL .