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That Ahha! Moment

Prompt: For a brilliant writing idea, what wins for you most of the time? An Ahha moment, being 100 percent sure of knowing something, the search for an idea, or your expertise?

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All of the above have worked for me, but the Ahha moment is my favorite; however, my Ahha moments come at the most inopportune times. Even if I may have noted a reminder word or two somewhere, somehow, when I get back to writing on it, the magic is gone, and I wonder why that idea appealed to me, but then on a rare occasion, the magic is still there.

I usually come across good ideas while I am doing something else. Yesterday, for example, while cleaning out a closet, I found some flash cards with pictures on them on a certain subject. I thought of writing something for each of those cards and putting it together as one item. So I didn’t throw them out. Unfortunately for my housekeeping, this always happens. I also get similar or totally different ideas while reading poetry. There are poems that have caused fiction in my writing.

The search always bears fruit, though. That fruit may be sour or bitter but I always produce something out of it.

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And for laughs…although I may have to raise the rating on my blog…

I received an e-mail from an unknown someone or some company, and now I think they know something about me that I don’t know about myself, something about who I used to be. Maybe this is another Ahha Moment!

Without much ado, here’s the subject line in blue that I snipped from my e-mail addy, which you may need to click on or just point to, to make it bigger (no pun intended):