The Build Up

Sometimes I get an idea. It feels pretty good, it's all coming together in my head, and I start feeling like I should sit down and write it. So you know what I do?
I don't sit down and write it. I go waste my time on another project, or have a staring/headbutt contest with Luna, or I just waste my time flopping around. I let it build up a little in my head, roll it around for a little while, make myself wait. And I think that's why I'm actually able to finish more than half my ideas these days... because I make that pressure build up, and it means that when I start, I'm not just going "ho hum, this is a nice idea I had," when I go in, it relieves all that pressure I've let build up in my head, it's like scratching a wonderful itch.
Luna don't. Don't say things like that. Go be creepy and... don't touch my flank. No. Bad. Spray bottle, there, I have a spray bottle. Yeah. Go away now.
It works surprisingly well. Until she stabs me.
Where was I? Pressure, right. The other point to letting an idea build up a little is that it lets me gauge how serious I am about it. I mean, sometimes, I get this idea, it sounds like the coolest thing in the world: a day later, I look at it, and go... "What the hell was I ever thinking? That is the most retarded thing of ever." Letting it build for a while lets my mind process it in more ways than just the outside: it lets me consider it from other angles, and gives me time to go over it consciously a little as much as letting the idea soak in my head, so to speak.
Oh great, Luna, now we're both soaked.
Anyway, finishing this up, what I'm saying is that sometimes the best thing to do with a story or an idea is to take the time to build up with it. Do something else, draw things out a little, and see if the idea stays: if it does, when you get to working it, it'll be like a geyser.
Stop. Stop giggling. I didn't mean. I'm going now.


~Scrivener Blooms