What’s to do when you want to write, but are too tired to make any sense?

The question is a challenge. It isn’t the same as writer’s block. Instead it is a result of exhaustion, whether physical or mental or both. The ideas are there, you can feel them (at least I can), but when you reach for them, they skip out of the way.

For writer’s block, the best thing is to write, perhaps not about the intended topic. Anything to get the juices going. And then you turn to the intended project with new ideas and renewed voice.

But, what do you do when you are just too tired?

Notes on the things you want to write would be helpful, but if too tired to write, I am too tired to take notes. Yet I feel the stories calling me.

Perhaps a recording as I ramble and try to get through my day would work. That would capture some of the ideas. However, then I am faced with the act of transcription. Are there any good systems to take a recording and convert it to text (at least that are affordable)? While there are systems, it is not clear how well they work or what they cost and most require using the cloud, something I am not comfortable with. Still, it is worth thinking about during this time of exhausted thinking.

Really, though, the real solution is to get more sleep and rebuild energy reserves. After all, would anything I say or write when this tired make any real sense?