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The “Well, Duh!” for WannaBe Writers In another article on this website, I set out the most important rules of writing. I just don’t call them rules. Two are the use of “down” time and scraps of time. A point: the day after I wrote that article for this web site, I again found myself waiting in a parking lot for an hour and a half. With my trusty pen and 5 X 8 yellow notepad, all was not lost. In that time I created nine single spaced pages of preliminary notes. Notes that could become a sound beginning for a new novel. When You Thirst for Ideas, Go Back to the Well You Know I made an interesting find this morning while cleaning up one of these “messes” that grow ever larger, even when in plain sight on my desk. A story which I seem to have lost somewhere in the black hole of boxed storage, because I can’t find it on my hard drive. Therein lies a lesson for everyone. Never, never, NEVER completely destroy anything you write. Save everything to CD disks as simple text files. Back it up with hardcopy paper files. Back it up to another hard drive. Writer’s Cramp and the Future Writer’s cramp, block, or an onset of fear of writing happens to all of us, even me, the loquacious one. The big mouth, the ever churning idea factory is temporarily stilled. Sometimes the turning point is internal and due to ill health, nutritional problems, or just being “off your stride”. Not this time. Sometimes it is external: the world becoming too much with us, or a series of events that suddenly greatly impose themselves upon you. Relocating In Retirement, Writer’s Cramp, and Flashes of Inspiration There are three themes to this article: relocating in retirement , writer’s cramp, and flashes of inspiration. One can lead to the other. First, there was the flash. It came as a tiny moment of thought. It lasted only nano-seconds. And yet, when I sat down at the keyboard, I was able to grow this tiny seed of light into an 1100 word article very easily in just a couple of hours. There I was, just going through my normal and usual getting the day started activities . . . when it hit.

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