How do you find something different to write every day? Don’t you run out of ideas?<\/p>\n
I am always one post away from my last idea. I feel like I repeat myself sometimes and have to search back and make sure I am not plagiarizing myself. <\/p>\n
What will you if it happens?<\/p>\n
What I always do!<\/p>\n
It already happens?<\/p>\n
All the time. <\/p>\n
So what do you?<\/p>\n
First I check my notes. <\/p>\n
Notes?<\/p>\n
For ideas. If I am in the car, or see something online, or overhear something unusual or noteworthy, I try to write it down. <\/p>\n
That’s very writerly. <\/p>\n
Nah, it’s just my lousy memory. I’d never remember any of my ideas if I didn’t write them down. But then I still run out of ideas and have to make something up. And if all else fails, there is always an imaginary dialogue. <\/p>\n
You make those up?<\/p>\n
Uh, “imaginary”?<\/p>\n
Right. <\/p>\n
Sometimes they’re based on a real conversation. Sometimes it’s a conversation I wish would happen. Sometimes it’s just one sentence that someone says that comes to mind and I invent shit around it. <\/p>\n
Like what?<\/p>\n
Like the other day at a BBQ, Shayla asked what I write about. I said “random shit” and she wanted to know more. So I said “like when your Mom and I were talking about colonoscopies and bowel preps during dinner, and you told the enema story. I suspect that will go in somewhere.”<\/p>\n
You were talking about enemas and colonoscopies during dinner?<\/p>\n
Well, in my defense, my mother is a nurse. I have no conversational boundaries at meal time. She used to tell enema stories at holiday dinners. <\/p>\n
You could do a funny blog about shit. <\/p>\n
Shit is always funny. It’s kind of obvious though, so I am saving it for an emergency. <\/p>\n
Good idea. <\/p>\n
Someday I am going to use the line that sometimes the random shit I write is literally about shit. I can’t figure out how to fit it in. <\/p>\n
Well, shit is pretty flexible. <\/p>\n
Much like a colonoscope.<\/p>\n
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