Clinical brain death.

[talithakalago]

I needed to take a day off writing today.

However when I say I’m taking a day off writing, what I’m actually doing is taking a day off the novel. Instead I wrote a few thousand words on a horror novel I’ve been playing with on the side. This is as close as I get to a workplace affair, folks.

That said, meka is still trundling along well. Much

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[xcorpusdelictix]

Strangely enough, when I am feeling brain dead from writing, I usually go and do something that makes me feel even more brain dead: I watch TV. I don't even like TV...but it takes my mind off the words for a short while. Though I am trying to get away from doing this and am working on reading more.

I usually take walks, too. I don't like running, and I prefer to exercise outside. It's getting colder now and the air feels so nice and crisp; it's great to escape into if I need to rejuvenate my brain.

[talithakalago]

So you need to turn your brain off for a bit, rather than turning it on?

There are bears outside. Okay, there isn't. But there are inch long ants and I get bitten by a lot of spiders. Grin.

I like hopping on the exercise bike with a movie, which is kinda like your things combined?

[talithakalago]

I think my brain needs sleep to reboot.

I've found the exercise bike to be a great investment. Even though I have to put towels on the seat to stop my ass getting bruised. Grin.

[penguin2]

What I always used to do was take long drives up-country and/or go hillwalking. Of course these days I can do neither, so I just wander through life studying the human condition until my head and hands force me to write again :-)

[talithakalago]

Country drives always work for me, though it's hard to sit down at the computer and write when you're four hours from home. (Thus why I always carry a note book, of course!)

I'd love to be able to afford long country drives at the moment...

[penguin2]

Yep, I never leave home without a small notebook and pen in my handbag!

The drive to and from Geelong yesterday was lovely. Unfortunately, our car is a piece of characterless bleeeeagh and I don't get to be behind the wheel...

[talithakalago]

Really? I'm not fond of the Melbourne/Geelong drive. I love heading out behind Geelong to the Great Ocean Road or Torquay.

What were you in Geelong for?

[georgiaclaire]

I yell at things. Or cry. These don't actually help, but they do reflect what I do.

No, for inspiration, I go to the beach. Not sunny happy beaches, windy stormy beaches with crazy waves and angry wind; it makes me feel better. Or walk for miles, and then just sleep like the dead.

Tonight I'm seeing a movie to try stave off the frustration.

(This week needs to be over).

[talithakalago]

I love walking on the beach when it's raining! It's one of my favorite things ever.

What movie?

[georgiaclaire]

Wall-E.

[talithakalago]

Any good?

[arielstarshadow]

(I actually have a genuine fear whenever I go to the doctor they won’t be able to find a pulse or something and they’ll tell me I’ve died. I know, too many horror movies and too much imagination.)

This situation actually happens to me in real life - I have low blood pressure. In fact, it happened to me today when I had to go to the chiropractor this morning because the headache I've had for over a week now was finally too much. It took two tries for him to find my blood pressure - I was somewhere around 74/36 or some ridiculously low number.

[talithakalago]

Once my mother was doing surgery on a woman and they were using this device that monitors brain waves to assess how deeply she was anethetised. She had none.

Not even when she was awake, the machine read NOTHING on her.

The dead walk among us...

[mirrorred_star]

Would having a crush on one of your characters count as a workplace affair? :P

[talithakalago]

That would imply that I was commited to another character.

However I AM supposed to be commited to the novel, so working on another novel is cheating. I'm getting some on the side. Grin.

Haha, I make my writing sound so much sexier than it is.