NaNo, Body Wash, Crayons and Twitter

It starts in the shower.  You’re standing there, sudsy, and it happens.  Light shines down from above, ethereal music plays all around you, and you realize …

I have an idea!

And it’s not just any idea it’s THE idea.  But, it is so undeveloped that if you blow too hard it will waft away into nothingness.  It is so perfect that you simply must memorialize it in some way, because without it you will never be a success.  Ever.

But you are standing – naked, wet, covered in Bath & Body Works Twilight Woods body wash (because, yum) – in the shower.  The idea is fading away and you’re clinging to it desperately hoping for a solution.

And then it happens again … you have an idea!

Bath crayons.  Your children have them so you know they exist.  If you just get yourself a snappy little set of bath crayons you could write down any ideas that pop up while you’re in the shower.  Sure, you might look like you’re a few crayons short of a box (see what I did there?).  But, when you have that perfect idea written down on the wall of the shower, not lost in the nebulous of forgotten ideas, it will be worth it.

This is the most brilliant idea ever!

And then you realize you lost the original idea.  The bright, shiny, most-perfect-ever idea … gone.  You claw the inside of your brain until it hurts but it’s no use.

Then you think - you need to put this on Twitter.  Surely someone else has gone through this and can wallow in pity with you. 

But then you wonder, how can you get this into 140 words?  Maybe it should be two tweets … but then you have to put those 1/2, 2/2 tags at the end.  When people do that, you never know which part of the tweet to re-tweet and/or favorite.  So you don’t.  And that kind of ruins it.

Then you think, you can just do a blog post.  That seems like overinvestment but – why not.  It was, after all, the best idea anyone ever had.  It deserves a blog post.

Then you realize the water is cold and you still haven’t washed your hair.

What … just me? 

Fine be that way.

Anyway … you might have noticed I’m procrastinating with my NaNo project.  Something like this was bound to happen. 

Back to the trenches. May the words be with you!

P.S. Go buy bath crayons and save yourself the trouble.  Trust me, they’ll be worth it next November.