Alfred Reed, composer, said, "You should first have something to communicate to another person. You should be able to say what you wish to communicate in the simplest and clearest possible manner so that the person reading the letter understands what you are trying to tell him. Then you go ahead and write it." Being able to communicate your ideas is a way that people can understand is very important, Reed says, because "you may have the most wonderful ideas in the world chasing themselves around in your head, but if you cannot draw them out in way other people can see, hear, or read them, they what good are those ideas to anyone other than yourself.
When Reed composes music, he makes a preliminary sketch of his basic idea, just writing it down as it comes to him, before he forgets it. "There is no time to develop [ideas] at this point; if you stop to work them out, you will lose these fleeting moments of inspiration when the ideas seem to flow of their own accord. Once these fragmentary ideas depart without having been written down in some form, they are gone forever." Clavier's Piano Explorer, July/August 1994.
This is good advice for all kinds of creating. Write it down before it flies away.
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