Ideas

There are lots of ideas swimming about at the moment, getting them all down and figuring them out is more difficult. Sometimes when we're given an idea, and an instruction, about what to write it all goes astray, and I end up with something not quite to the brief. That happened in one of my last pieces of writing. I think it worked well, but looked beyond the brief slightly. Maybe it was making connections. Perhaps its needing to let go of ego. I like the fact that there is a huge amount to learn.
Unfortunately though that is still not helping me to sleep at night. Great long 'to do' lists haunt me, and wake me at horrible o'clock in the morning panicking that something hasn't been done. Career Development Loan being a big one at the moment, plus a lot of letters that really need to be written.
I've tried keeping in touch with friends through facebook, the trouble is, I've got swamped by it, too many applications, people send me stuff and it gets lost. A little bit of pruning needs to be done I think. Which reminds me, rather tangentially, of something my parents' neighbour said: a man prone to malapropisms or barberisms as we've now called them. He was telling my dad that his teenage son is now spending a lot of time in the bathroom, 'pruning' himself. Quite an image. I must keep a note of all these things.
Scripwriting this afternoon, I'm looking forward to it. Not sure if I can do it, but I'm going to have a good try.