The night before last, just before I went to bed, I was reading an article about a new investigative journalism site and it gave me an idea for a new blog post.
I finished reading and as I brushed my teeth and went to bed I thought about my little blog post and how I would structure it and what I needed to say.
I thought to myself, that nearly writes itself! It all seemed so obvious. As I was lying in bed, I thought – perhaps I should pick up my phone quickly and jot down the title in a note or draft blog post. Nah, it’ll be fine, it’s almost written in my head, I can write it down in the morning.
Of course the morning came and I was distracted by various things, and then later in the afternoon it occurred to me – what was I planning to write. There was something. I was so sure of it and knew exactly what to write.
Could I remember though? Not at all. The next couple of hours I kept returning to the thought hoping that something would jump back into my head. In the end, as I was grabbing a shower after work, I carefully retraced my steps of the previous night to ‘recreate’ the scenario that had given rise to the original thought – et voila! It finally came back to me.
As soon as I got out of the shower I wrote the title of the draft blog post. I didn’t need to write anything else, the title alone would be enough to jog the old memory.
Anyway, just a reminder to myself to always write these things down 😊
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