Failure of the Memory Sock

Like most writers, I often have ideas as I'm failing asleep. When that happens, we have a choice of either getting up, turning on a light, and writing it down, or hope we remember it in the morning. For a while I kept a notebook and pen by my bed to jot ideas down in the dark, but unfortunately, my handwriting is barely legible when I'm awake, wearing my glasses, and in a lighted room. The next morning I'd often look at the ink scrawled across the page and have no clue what was written....