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Why Should You Write Down Your Ideas and Interesting Thoughts ASAP?

When you write down your ideas, they become harder to lose or misplace.

Murray "MJ" Blehart
6 min readApr 27, 2022
When you write down your ideas, they become harder to lose or misplace.
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This is not the article I was originally writing.

Nope, that article was on a completely different topic. I was about halfway done writing it.

Then, my computer crashed. The usual recovery file that tends to pop up when I restart MS Word didn’t. After spending probably more time than I should have searching for this — it all proved to be for naught.

The worst part? I cannot for the life of me recall what I was writing before.

The title? Gone? Topic? Can’t remember. A good 20 minutes of work was erased.

Two lessons come from this. One — SAVE MORE OFTEN. You’d think, way back in college when I lost the entire beginning of a story because I didn’t save, I’d remember this. Yeah, MS Word nowadays should autosave. But…here we are.

Two — always write down your ideas and interesting thoughts as soon as possible.

Allow me to introduce another instance where I encounter this often.

Improv is my friend

In the medieval reenactment society that I’ve been playing with for 30 years now, I…

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Murray "MJ" Blehart
Murray "MJ" Blehart

Written by Murray "MJ" Blehart

I explore mindfulness, positivity, philosophy, & conscious reality creation. I love to help & inspire. Also, I write sci-fi/fantasy. http://mjblehart.com

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