Make capture your writing superpower.

Ideas are the fuel that power writing. Writers crave ideas.

Yet, ideas are ethereal, fleeting things.

They can slip in and out of your mind in a heartbeat. And, we can be the enemy of our idea — judging it before we give it time to reach to its full potential.

For digital writers, capture is a superpower. Developing a place to store ideas and building the habit of writing down any idea in that place is hard — but it is necessary.

This is my fifth or sixth time going through Ship 30 and it has taken me all of those cohorts to realize that the process is so much easier when I have a place to go every day where my ideas are waiting on me. It makes my writing time so much more enjoyable. If I don’t happen to have a fresh idea sitting in my head, I can browse my list and find one that I want to write about that day.

Developing my idea station has helped me to capture ideas rather than prejudge them. It’s okay for an idea to sit in that queue for days, weeks, months and maybe even years. Perhaps it will never turn into an essay, thread, or something else. That’s okay. But, I give every idea — even if I don’t know how to write it in the moment — a place to grow to its full potential.

Where do you capture your ideas?

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