Comments on: Bad Advice Wednesday: Keep a Writing Chart http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/bad-advice-wednesday-keep-a-writing-chart/ Raise a glass to the lost arts of reading, writing, and drinking. Tue, 21 May 2013 02:29:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: John Jack http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/bad-advice-wednesday-keep-a-writing-chart/comment-page-1/#comment-11733 John Jack Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:58:24 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=2411#comment-11733 When I was a child, Mom kept all my memories for me. An appointment, special dates and occasions, a chore, time on task, in timeout, on restriction, etc. When I left home, I couldn't remember what I ate for breakfast that same night, never mind the ups and downs of growing up with someone who remembered for me. A fortutiously unfortunate set of circumstances restored most of my childhood memories, flooding back in all their horrors, sorrows, and fleeting joys. Anymore, I keep a running life planner organizer in my memory palace. Sights and sounds and touches and smells and tastes of settings, plots, ideas, characters, events and discourses visited (SPICED), thoughts wanting further meditation, words said and replied, inspirations a borning, innovations and trial and error failures, graphics, charts, timelines, photographs, artware, three- and four-dimensional objects that as of the moment only exist in my memory palace. No guilt from staring at post-it reminders unfulfilled, only left to another day for realization, when after the subconscious pressure cooker has done its thing and it's ready for presentation, my conscious mind can realize whatever to its fullest I am able. When I was a child, Mom kept all my memories for me. An appointment, special dates and occasions, a chore, time on task, in timeout, on restriction, etc. When I left home, I couldn’t remember what I ate for breakfast that same night, never mind the ups and downs of growing up with someone who remembered for me. A fortutiously unfortunate set of circumstances restored most of my childhood memories, flooding back in all their horrors, sorrows, and fleeting joys.

Anymore, I keep a running life planner organizer in my memory palace. Sights and sounds and touches and smells and tastes of settings, plots, ideas, characters, events and discourses visited (SPICED), thoughts wanting further meditation, words said and replied, inspirations a borning, innovations and trial and error failures, graphics, charts, timelines, photographs, artware, three- and four-dimensional objects that as of the moment only exist in my memory palace.

No guilt from staring at post-it reminders unfulfilled, only left to another day for realization, when after the subconscious pressure cooker has done its thing and it’s ready for presentation, my conscious mind can realize whatever to its fullest I am able.

]]> By: Molly http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/bad-advice-wednesday-keep-a-writing-chart/comment-page-1/#comment-11725 Molly Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:40:49 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=2411#comment-11725 This makes sense. And it is simple. No reason not to try it. Damn. This makes sense. And it is simple. No reason not to try it. Damn.

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