For years now, I've always carried a small notebook with me, where I jot down plot ideas, phrases and titles I like, good quotes, interesting historical notes, and other things that can inform my writing. I've referred to them frequently for inspiration and information.
Three years ago, when we went into lockdown, I no longer really went anywhere, so I kept the notebook on the side table by the couch rather than my backpack, but I still jotted down things that caught my interest or sparked ideas. However, the contents seem to have changed since the pandemic. Thumbing through it this morning, I realize I've written down a scattered mishmash of things (and I've also realized how much Youtube I must be watching). Here's a sample:
- How to dehydrate and powder squash into flour
- How to build your own radiant heater with carbon fibre, copper pipes, and fire brick
- "Desire impoverishes us."
- A 17th-century recipe for Egg-Pear Pie
- How to use the sump pump to supply self-watering raised vegetable beds
- Small Town Businesses that Won't Fail
- How to buy land anonymously
- Balcony railings have to be 42" high if over 5'11" from the ground
- Haskap berry bushes don't have thorns
- Loons are solitary and mate for life, and they live in pairs in the same general area, but they are rarely seen together.
- Hope Haven Therapeutic Riding Centre in Markdale is expanding.
- Things to eat to reverse insulin resistance
- Which herbaceous plants are nitrogen-fixers
- Olive oil can apparently boost immunity, fight viruses and bacteria, and reduce respiratory infections
- Nomad Microhomes have a DIY flatpack house
- A recipe for Crockpot Butter Chicken
- A Barbara Kingsolver quote about how attending to tasks can make them "part of a good day, rather than just a rock in the road to someplace else."
- How to sew dog poop bag holders
- Clever ways to store Christmas tree ornaments
- How to deter locusts
How I'm supposed to get writing inspiration from that, I'm not entirely sure... But it tells you how varied and crazy my brain space has become!
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