Week 1569
Busy. Busy, busy, busy. Brain very occupied. I'm daydreaming less—and that's big trouble for a writer! Do I need to set aside a block of time for daydreaming? Can it even work that way?
I'm typing this from a plane. My tweets this week are going to be 100% geotagged photos; you should follow along, because I think it's going to be weird/fun.
Coming tonight or tomorrow: the first of the Annabel Scheme remix projects! Yep, it's Emily Cooper's renderings—and they are beautiful.
Have just realized that, given my aforementioned tweet experiment, I will be unable to tweet about the renderings this week. Hmm. You're going to have to help me get the word out.
This Friday I'll be in Austin for a few days of SXSW Interactive; drop me a line if you'll be there, too.
(Note to weeknote aggregators: you'll probably want to take me off your list, as these are increasingly tenuous approximations of the weeknote genre.)
Daydreaming: The key is in the commute. I hardly ever get new ideas except when I am in transit; it’s often a good time to capture the damn things, too (well, unless you are driving) — there’s nothing else that you have to stop doing in order to write it down. (This is what I love about trains: first, that you are doing what you are supposed to be doing just by sitting there and being carried toward your destination, and second, that there is constant stimulus around you in the form of the view out the window, the guy on the phone in the next seat over, etc.)
If I’m driving when a thought occurs I just try to drill it into my head for future retrieval without crashing into someone. Less optimal.