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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 2:05

How do you keep track of your ideas?

article image placeholderHow to Keep Track of Ideas no Matter Where They Occur
And as someone who's generally highly organized, this has been something that has been a bit of a puzzle for me, because where I keep track of ideas, it has a method to the madness in my mind. But I think to an outsider it would just seem like chaos. So I'm really excited to talk to you anew about how this article came to be and what you may be able to share with us about tracking and organizing ideas throughout the writing process

Talking with @AnuAnniah about the #writing process. #swellinterview https://s.swell.life/SSXEBiBSaXS7lwa

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Anu Anniah
@AnuAnniah · 3:14

@bowie #writing

And each time I read an article, each time I hear somebody, I find another idea in my head, and I began to wonder how other writers actually track what they do and the ideas that come to them. And I read articles about how people are tracking their ideas. What are they doing? And then realized that over the last one year I have come up with my own system, things that work for me. Of course, a lot has been written everywhere
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 2:51

@AnuAnniah How do you identify a good idea?

Anil I was so inspired hearing more about your story and just the chance you took ANU being like, you know what? This is what I want to do. And I think I'm a writer and making it happen. And part of why I connected so much with your article and really wanted a chance to connect with you is, I think kindred spirits in the sense that I could really tell in your voice and in your writing
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Anu Anniah
@AnuAnniah · 4:32

#writing @bowie #ideas

You know, there's something out there, but you're not really able to see through the fog. So at the end of it, you kind of give up on that idea. So it's just forgotten because it never formed itself into a clear shape. There are some ideas that come because something funny happened on a certain day. A very interesting story that I like to narrate is about again
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:36

@AnuAnniah Current idea & how to spark ideas when feeling stuck

I love that you brought up how ideas and how we keep track of them or bring them to life can really differ depending on genre or the relationship we have to the kind of idea or writing it is was not considering that at all, but that's definitely the case for me as well. And I totally know what you mean with the poetry or poems or smaller pieces where it almost feels like a download?
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Anu Anniah
@AnuAnniah · 4:59

#creative downtime #journey of an article

Actually, as I read more, I'll probably be writing more about all the joy that these authors bring to me. So in a way, they forced me into writing about it right? The way they want so much humor into mundane, everyday activities. I just had to write about it so that's the journey based on what you just asked. Now, with respect to a creative lull, I mean, that's really hard. I do believe patience is one of the things I utilize
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:45

@AnuAnniah Thank you!

And that was a really lovely reminder to get today. So thank you so much for having this conversation and really looking forward to following more of your writing
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