I read an article the other day about a writer that found her best ideas came to her whilst in the bath. I honestly don't have many baths preferring to shower twice daily instead but I thought I'll give that a go. Ran myself a nice hot bubbly bath and settled back and waited for the ideas for to flow.
All I can say is baths don't work for me. I found my eyes travelling all around the imperfections and noticing all the places I'd managed to miss when cleaning. Closing my eyes to block out the room I was soon interrupted by my ten year old banging on the door begging to be let in as he desperately needed a poo. That's why I don't enjoy baths. For me they are far from relaxing and by the time I got out all wrinkled I was trying to plan in the time to re-decorate the room before Christmas.
I realised tonight that the time when my idea's flow is whilst washing the pots. That boring mundane job that I have to do every day, sometimes 3 to 4 times and that's when my creative juices start kicking in. The problem is that until now I haven't really noted anything down straight away and by the time I get to sit down the idea has gone.
Tonight I dried my hands, grabbed my notebook, jotted down the idea and went back to the pots. Now I have something that I can work on later on and hopefully will find myself in a new routine with a note book now placed in the kitchen perfect for this pot washing moments. The only problem with that is it now takes my three times as long to get the pots cleared away.
When do you find your best ideas spring to mind?
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