Paul Rosolie

It's fun to see your hopes and dreams.

It's fun to record the mundane moments that we all forget about.

And that might be like cooking in the kitchen with your mother.

That might be a fun walk you had with your dog, like little things that you just, you think you're going to remember everything.

You just don't.

And so I have piles of notebooks.

I have just piles of piles and piles of notebooks in my, in my room.

And, uh, when something happens, I write it down and I, I, if a cool story happens, I will write down, or if I find a leaf from an extinct tree, um, I will make a etching of it, but I just, as anything that happens that I find remarkable in any way, um,

either for my own personal memory or for writing, I'll write it down.

And then, and then when I go back to it later, a, I have a very good memory and then be the facts are there.

And so when something happens, like you rescue a spider monkey or, or you, you know, something, something happens that's remarkable in life.

You, you,

You get to spend time with someone that you haven't in a long time and you get that feeling of like, oh, that's why I'm such good friends with them.

Like, you know, you write these things down and then it's always there.

And so I feel like whenever I don't journal that I'm missing out on keeping my life and my memories alive.

Um, so yeah, I don't, I don't do the, that Stephen King quote about like, you know, um, amateurs wait for inspiration and the professionals, we go to work every day and he's like 10 pages a day or whatever it is.

Um, I don't do that.

I write when I feel like it.

And I like to, you know, I'll start thinking of like, oh, this is a perfect way to, you know, start this scene because like the moment this happened, I felt so intensely.

And if we bring people in and I'll just be in a car or a boat or something and I'll just start thinking about it and I'll go, this is just, the thing is you got to carpe diem.