i've been trying to do creative work and have big ideas for a thing i want to write. i've been brainstorming and basically talking to myself in a text document that is purposefully designed to make me not look at it later. the process for this is a general thing i've been using for a while that i made so that i could write anything i want into a text document without worrying about me or someone else looking at it later (a side effect of this process is that no one else can look at it). this has also worked for smaller writing projects in the past (like really small) but i mean for this one to be huge and i'm worried that i'll lose these notes about the thing due to the limitations of human memory. i really do prefer writing in the comfort of my secure notebook though. should i just try to become more comfortable writing in a regular text document? the problem with that is that i'm worried that i'll censor the heck out of myself like i used to do an
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 f the real gems of ideas may never come out. i'm not sure what to do here. any tips?
i think the answer here is quite simple. keep writing in the 'blind' document as you have been, but also start a new document with notes and writings for this project, which you will refer to again and again, and update as the project goes on. write in the 2 documents side by side. discuss things in the 'blind' document, and then when you arrive at important updates/decisions and writings, put them in the project document