Write anywhere …
I nearly forgot that Coldplay was supposed to be on 60 Minutes last night. Granted, most of the time, I forget 60 Minutes is still on television! In any case, I caught the last half of the interview and learned something … for the umpteenth billionth time.
Posts to the blog have been few and far between since I’ve started doing the Twitter thing. Twitter is so easy. Think it. Type it. Post it. Done. Into my brain, out of my brain in three easy steps.
Blogging is so much a different animal, requiring more thought, more effort in composition and more time. I can’t begin to enumerate how many times over the past couple of weeks a nugget of a post has popped into my brain. During my drive to work (pick a job, either job), I can usually map out the post in my head and even come up with a few nicely-crafted lines. Then, I hit the door. Whatever or whoever is at my desk or on my computer wins the day and the nicely-crafted lines are long gone.
What, pray tell, does this have to do with Coldplay? In the interview, Chris Martin reveals that he writes even the briefest of thoughts onto whatever is handy — even the piano! When he is finished, he just repaints the piano.
Write it down. I need to do that — not just for blog posts, but for youth group ideas and any other creative thoughts that cross my path. I need to write it down before it gets sucked into the vortex of the mundane. Sometimes I wonder how much more productive and/or creative I could be if I did something so simple as writing things down or recording them on my cell phone or something.
I’m not going to write anything as good as Viva La Vida, but you never know …
