Writing Tips - 3

Clip Clip Clip.
Save ideas.
Clip them from newspapers, from magazines.
Highlight them in books. Bookmark them on websites.
If somebody says something you like, and you don't have the ability to write it down, take out your phone, and text it to yourself.
For example, I was listening to a sermon at Every Tuesday from a missionary. He used a phrase that I loved.
He called a little kid who was annoying him a "muppet."
Which is such a cool phrase to use in a derogatory fashion.
But I didn't have a chance to write it down, so I had to text it to myself.
And some day, I'll use that phrase in a book.
But if I hadn't saved it, I wouldn't ever use it.
So save some stuff.