I’m hoping we get stuff like that too in not too long a future date.

You probably will be the only one on there with those shoes – if you’re not, you must take a picture of yourself with the other person!

Hey… maybe you can be my “satellite office”! Those kind of shoes are perfect for where you live. Right now, where I am, I can really only wear them in the house…

So I stick to carting my Moleshine around with me. I like the feel of touching it and the ease of which I can carry it with me everywhere I go.

Like you I often get inspiration while I’m away from the computer. Especially on my morning walks. In those cases I should have some digital plugin in my head that just allows me to download my ideas directly to my laptop.

@ Brett: I’m going to flaunt them on my cruise in January. For all I know I might be the only toe shoe passenger and come back to you with dozens of orders. Instant business. Hehehehe….

@ Cath: I see we think alike, even though we do this for different markets. One day when you have your book published we can laugh about this.

But actually taking someone else’s work and having a go at writing it in your own words, is a bloody good idea. Thanks.

I think that English teacher and one of my engineering professors went to the same school of thought, as the engineering prof used to talk of the concept of “optimum sloppiness” – something being “good enough”. Both of these guys were right.

Hey, it’s always great being here! Just wait until you wear those shoes out for a walk and you notice the difference in the feeling between pavement, sand, gravel, and grass. It is amazing… and yet, you don’t have to fear stepping on glass, as they protect you.

Though some folks think they are not much to look at, they really are a pretty unique thing and I hope I can always find something like that – if not, I’ll make my own!

Another tip that I’ve come across recently that might help… Often those moments of inspiration come when I’m nowhere near a computer or at a time when I’m not in a position to start writing something. Normally those thoughts would just go somewhere far off inside the brain – possibly never to be heard from again.

Recently I’ve been playing around with some of those note taking tools such as ReQall, Dial2Do or Jott (among many others), where you can call and leave yourself a note to be emailed or added to a to do list. This way you can recapture that moment of brilliance when you are ready to write!

It is always great having you here Brett and I cannot wait for my toe shoes to arrive. Woohoo…

@ George: Yeah and don’t you hate those moments when that happens, arrgh… I also started to do my writing in the mroning, after I come back from my daily walk. By lunch time I’m usually done with the brunt of it all and can then enjoy the rest of the day even more, plus work on my niche sites to get them stronger every day.

Inspiration is fickle.

I do get some of my ideas from surfing around the net. I too, love those “A-ha!” moments. Ihave had it happen where I stop writing for a second to correct a typo and – poof! there goes the train of thought. I agree, write like crazy, go back and fix errors later.

Cheers!

George