White space

What is white space?

Here is a list of places where I always seem to get my best ideas and inspiration: washing up after dinner, walking to pick the kids up from school, in the shower, during a solitary drive, while digging in the garden, elbows-deep in a repetitive painting project, daydreaming beside a window, cup of tea in hand, in bed, seconds before I’m about to fall asleep. One thing that almost all of these places have in common is the extraordinary inconvenience involved when it comes to writing down said ideas and inspiration. Showers and writing paper are not a match made in heaven; my husband gets inexplicably annoyed when I sit up in bed at 2am, turn on the light, and start writing; and I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to make notes while driving a car. Or it should be.

And – I wonder if you have experienced this too? – sometimes