jot it down

inspiration can strike at anytime.
don't rely on memory to keep hold on to that snippet of inspiration. no what you need is a notebook.
me i use a moleskine notebook. hey if they were good enough for hemmingway they are good enough for me. (in an aside i often go to the royal academy and more often than not i will see a middle-aged chap with his moleskine sketchbook sketching a painting or two. he seems quite talented).

if you are lucky when the muse strikes you will be able to act on it.
mostly though inspiration hits when you least expect it and when it is least convenient. so you need to make notes turning the inspiration into something concrete. something that you can come back to at a later date.

why come back to it later?
well there are times when inspiration is just a bit half-arsed. those are times to let it lie and mull it over, give it time to grow into something bigger and better.

with a notebook you can jot the ideas down, leave them to one side and then come back to them later.

the important thing is to come bck to those jottings - no point in writing down the idea and then forgetting them. that is like buying a lottery ticket and never checking the results. what kind of fool does that? (ah that would be me).

so make notes.
come back to them later.
simple advice that works for anything creative.