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RE: When You Have More Ideas than Time-- Write Them Down!
Actually, using the Notes app on my iPhone has been a big game changer for me over the years. I still write by hand as well, but I find writing ideas or paragraphs on Notes really produces results for me. I email myself whatever I want to continue working on and then flesh things out on my computer. Sometimes, too, I can complete a whole story on my phone. In the past, when I journaled, very little of what I wrote, even ideas, ever made it out of my journals. Perhaps, because I never had a solid writing place to work from where I could use Post-It Notes, etc to help me remember my ideas.
Ah yes, the email thing. When I get to work, I open an email form and type bits and pieces into it pretty much all day long and then send it to myself at the end of the day. I'm the opposite with things written on paper, though... I'm encouraged by the actual act of crumpling up a piece of paper and throwing it away as a "used" idea... there's something very tangible about that simple act that makes me more likely to write something. My actual paper journals? Not so much... and that has pretty much been reduced to use as part of keeping "morning pages" (Julia Cameran/The Artists Way).