On Notes

After I wrote in my notebook about different ways to come up with stories and ended that with "make a story from a note", I wanted the next bit to be about what to write in my notes. But I wasn't getting the time and eventually just wrote other notes instead. I figure I can write it here for now, which I may write later in my notebook:

 - Write a sentence, all that is required of the sentence is for it to be a good sentence, it doesn't have to be anything else. It doesn't have to be true, wise, anything other than a good sentence. 

 - Write down an image. Any image that spoke to you, and that you want to think about later. The writing of the image in your notes doesn't have to be good for you to write it down, since you can always work on it later. 

- The plot for a story.

- The beginning of a story.

- Any part of a story that comes to you.

- Your thoughts, or parts of your thoughts. I say parts of your thoughts because sometimes the thought may be incomplete in your head until you write it down, so you may avoid writing it down because it's incomplete, but writing may be the process you need to complete it. (Although sometimes, by the time I write down part of a thought, I find I've forgotten even parts I had thought of...)

- Your beliefs, views, opinions. 

- Rewrite different versions of previous notes.

Some of these are obvious, I'm just trying to make a full list, though I know I'm probably missing out on things I write in my notebook, or also in my notes, in my email drafts. I write these down when they come to me, and then when the time to write a story comes, I have all these notes to work on, and sometimes that's what happens. You can of course also combine different notes or the outcomes of them into one story/piece.