Walking and the Creative Brain

 A few days ago I was talking with a friend and fellow Casual Creative and mentioned that my best ideas seem to come to me when I'm walking. She told me that walking involves harmony using both sides of the body and therefore, both sides of the brain. This harmony translates in to being able to access your creative mind more effectively. 

My experience is that I have great ideas as long as I'm not listening to someone else talk. But music is fine. So my daily step goal is now also a daily idea goal. I can't force the ideas to come, but the do... if I put the steps in.

The Casual Creative

With only a bit of time every few days to write I have been focused on my manuscript rather than my blogging, but today I wanted to the quick opportunity to share something that keeps bubbling up for me. The concept of a "Casual Creative".

What is it to be a casual creative? To be committed to the act of creation for the joy of creation. Not in connection with compensation, or ego or deadlines or anything other than the joy of creation. 

Do you find that the joy of creation is increased or decreased as you do more with it? Share it with others? Ask for feedback? What part of your soul does creation cater to? And what is the right balance of needs that leads to the arduous journey of improvement and perfection. 

With much of the arts you have a goal in mind such as music or dance. But with writing, the goal is the ever present and ever nefarious "they". The imaginary demi-god author that is an impossibility but isn't it required if after all the work of writing, you decide, that you will edit?!

And at that point can you still be a causal creative? I am discovering the answer is.. yes! In fact the joy of editing, especially for specific things like replacing adverbs with more descriptive verbs can become a building block of being a better writer. 

Wake up Wake up Wake up!

I am reawakening my blog. I am not sure what will come with it, but I'm pretty sure I will amuse myself, which I hope will also amuse you.

Writing over the last few years has largely disappeared from my life, until I up and quit my job and suddenly I was writing 1500 word a day or more.

I was 35K words into a novel when life stepped in and took all my available energy for transitioning back into employment. But I want to re-engage, so what better way than public commitment and embarrassment if I don't figure out how to get more of it done.

more to come...

The Wisdom of Drinking with Co-workers

OK, it's generally not wise to drink with co-workers in excess, but the basic one or two drink maximum is always an excellent play. I have recently been reorganized into a new team and we are currently working hard on our team bonding. Every Friday at about pm we're wandering through each other's cubes and sharing a ponder on where should we go drink tonight?

It's team building so we can put it on the corporate card right? For now... yes, but I think we're going to have to start inviting the boss. After all, he has a bigger budget to charge these things to.

And you know what else is smart about drinking with co-workers. Startling your super uptight coworkers into laughing. My favorite recent comment was, "why is it that men are so much better at drawing ----- than women" It's kind of weird when you think about it. Not sure why I was thinking about it.  I might have broken the two drink max when I blurted that one out. But it started an excellent and wholly inappropriate conversation, and besides, we weren't at work and there was no boss, so I probably won't get fired, will I?

you be the judge.

What's the deal with

Super bowl commercials... I mean our inner commercialist / materialist waits all year for the super bowl commercials and all the hype about the investment in the commercial and the cost of time during the super bowl ... Then you never see most if them ever again. Sometimes you see a truncated version ... But the vast majority are awesome and then they disappear. Let me be a Tuesday afternoon, during the soap opera type commercial in my next life... Longer life span.


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What's the deal with

Being tired... There is some very weird and childish thing going on. When I'm dog tired and then somehow end up staying up much layer than usual. The TV wasn't even that interesting.

Taco Tursday Terror

Well, it's that time of the week again. When the food service industry decides to get cute with cheep food and ontemantpoea. Ok I'm pretty sure I misspelled that one.

Taco Tuesday it seems, lives in so very many places. Yet the familiar response is -- really, I shouldn't... My problem is that I end up doing something much worse... Fried chicken with French fries and chili. I think I actually clogged an artery with that single meal. Then, not to be outdone, dinner came along...

To be fair, I have been really consistent about working out lately. And I'm hitting the threshold. The one where it actually seems to be moving the needle... But now I'm hungry like a teenager a couple times a day. The problem is - I am NOT a teenager and will have to deal with worse than bad skin for eating like that.

Also, just because my hunger remind me of my teen years doesn't mean my body is metabolizing food like when I was a teenager... Today's list -- all the ways I can keep from succumbing to Teenage Mutant Hunger Taco Tuesdays...

- snacks - the healthy kind
- that's pretty much it oh and stop being in places where they sell terrible food - like work.
- drink more water
- and coffee ( I just like the excuse)
- eat before I'm starving
- keep snack bars around
- don't order fried food

Do these lists work? Or, change Anything?! I'll have to think another that.

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