2. Carry a Note Book!
Pablo
Picasso said (in Spanish, of course!): 'When inspiration comes, I want
it to find me working.' Isn't that a wonderful
explanation? It's among my most favourite quotations. I've used it again
and again, to encourage me to work every day.
But there are other moments, too … moments when I could be working, in all sorts of odd places and at all kinds of weird times.
It's great if you're working when a brilliant idea comes into your head
but, in the supermarket, you will need a note book to write it down.
If you wake in the night with a clever phrase you
want to use the next day – you won't remember it! However good
the idea is, there's no guarantee it will stay in the front of your
mind.
So always have a note book to hand.
Of course, this doesn't solve the problem of ideas
that come to me when I'm swimming …
