When Your Brain Is Exploding

When Your Brain Is Exploding: 

Step by Step Tips on How to Handle an Abundance of Inspiration

It is generally known that writing can be a frustrating and difficult experience. Often inspiration is welcomed, but sometimes it comes too fast, bowling one over like a semi-truck on a freeway. Novel ideas spring from everywhere, taunting us with their tempting freshness and beautiful hints of what's to come. As most professionals will tell you, sometimes this can be a good thing, but in rare cases, it has been known to make one's brain explode. If you should find yourself in this situation...

1. Find a writing buddy who can be a moral support for you during this difficult time.

2. Create Pinterest boards so that you can keep your ideas online rather than in your head.

3. Open a word doc and spill out all your ideas onto the page. This will save you from having to remember all of them.

4. Prioritize which ones you'd like to write in which order.

5. Talk to your support group, or your writing buddy, if you have one. Tell them about your ideas and don't be afraid to be honest about the strain this is causing you.

If you try all these steps and still find no relief...

6. Grab a roll of duct tape. Just in case.