Forget
Write down
Write down verb - To diminish the price or value of.
Both terms in one sentence
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They die as soon as the paper is taken out, but in the meantime, they "live" exactly to the constraints of the paper (meaning if you forget to, say, write down that you still want to see colors or actually feel things, your life undead won't be very pleasant).
Source: Literature / Matthew Swift -
They die for real as soon as the paper is taken out, but in the meantime, they live exactly to the constraints of the paper (meaning if you forget to, say, write down that you still want to see colors or actually feel things, your undead life won't be very pleasant).
Source: Necromancer - As a perusal of the real life section will demonstrate, many of the more successful authors have noted a tendency for their stronger works to "write themselves" in bursts of inspiration that they then simply scramble to write down before they forget the idea.
Source: I Just Write the Thing
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