Lesson #4-Sketchy Memory

So you want to be an pencil pusher and you want to know where to start. Besides buying a pencil knucklehead, buy a sketchbook and carry it wherever you go. The biggest lesson here is never lose a creative moment or idea. When I was a young knucklehead myself I cannot tell you how many times a creative idea knocked on my door, introduced itself quietly, played around in my dizzy little head,and left as soon as my meal arrived. I would converse, chow down, become distracted and poof, that creative idea was soon forgotten and probably playing footsie with some other creative (ever see an idea you had being created by someone else, read Jung). That is the absolute worst feeling, knowing you had something special and then losing it to the concrete abutment of a meatball sub. So now, mainly due to a sketchy memory, I now carry a sketchbook everywhere. I jot, doodle in personal wonderment at just how creative I am. Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy.