You'd Think I'd Learn
I get story ideas and write them down and I believe at the time that I'm being really, really careful and writing down enough of the idea so that I'll remember exactly what I meant to do with it. But when I come back to it later, it always looks something like this:
You can't see Saturn with the naked eye.
Whatever.
No, not--whatever. Jeez! Saturn is not visible to the naked eye.
I heard you the first time.
Then why did you say--
I'm sure I will use this sometime, but it can't really be said that it's a story idea....