Typically when falling asleep in bed at night great thoughts enter
mind, long stringed and meaningful sentences trip over each other to receive attention at front of brain alongside all brilliant findings, results, meanings that speak volumes and hard hitting phrases that are just ticket to open door to success. The last thought in brain before sleep overrides this brilliant future work is, “must use that tomorrow”.The next day as you stumble out of bed to clean teeth with little enthusiasm and to sit staring inanely at a pot of hot water (the coffee machine that you had forgotten to put coffee in yet again) these thoughts are still asleep. They are heaped and well obscured in other jumbled and nonsensical reasoning’s and justifications –Double Dutch without subtitles or translation.
In fact, as you opt for a cup-of tea (seeing as how coffee machine makes water) and you stub you toe on stool that was in way, absolutely no prose, ideas or means to move forward spring into mind. It can even be said that after switching on computer and after having shot down twenty spacecraft and been eaten up by a green alien sort of thingy, that not even a title or starting sentence seems worthy of being tapped into keyboard.
It can justifiably be said that whole day has been spent in totally useless fashion. Staring out of window at idyllic setting only makes lying on bed seem very attractive: walk to corner shop to clear head only brings anger over prices these shops charge and afternoon nap has now obliterated or obscured all that might have been dreamt up that morning - in short head remains an empty void and a bottomless pit with no foundation..
There are two major periods of fantastic prose assembly and justifiable award-winning script construction. Had results or product of these two periods of mind-boggling activity simply been recorded for posterity things would be very different. Even if they had been written on back of a cereal box, on toilet paper or even dictated into a tape recorder (right over your friend’s favorite tape) these reams of cohesive cognitive and collective convictions would have been beginning, middle and end of many an article, essay, poem, writing or story. They would have been justification, vindication and rationalization; crux, core, and essence; plot, storyline and scenario; speech to end all speeches, thesis to bring in top marks and book that would sell more than any Harry Potter novel ever has.
Strangely enough mind-boggling prose that springs out during these two periods in most writers’ lives is not often etched or embedded onto some scrap of paper or recorded for eternity on a Dictaphone – results that have been used next day that is. In first situation thinker and brilliant script writer has unfortunately fallen asleep before thoughts of night could be transferred from brain to paper. And in second case new author and Nobel Lauriat is blind drunk, so blind drunk and out of his tree that writing or talking is not really a feasible possibility – even though it seems like a good idea at time.
