Friday Rants and Raves - May 2

[sarillia]

Hello all! It's been another week. How has life been treating you and your writing?

This week's picture is Jean Leon Gerome's Cave Canem (Beware of Dog).

Comments

[inkdust]

I get that about working other places. I've found that I can work pretty well at home for a certain number of days, but periodically I need to go put myself somewhere else, and then ideally that resets my ability to work at home. The need to mentally separate our lives is funny.

[serria]

I think that's a good way of putting it. Brains are strange. I think switching up the environment sort of activates a part of the brain that leads to more vivid creativity. I don't know if I'm just making things up or not, but for example, I find I dream more when I sleep somewhere different - even if I've just moved my bed in my bedroom to a different spot. For writing, I suppose it can't be so different to the point of being a distraction, but whatever triggers creativity seems to become a lot more lethargic for me if I'm sitting in the same place in my house.

That could just be an excuse for being lazy, too. Who knows. :P

[inkdust]

It makes sense in terms of stimulation. You can only create so much out of nothing. Even if the people in Starbucks or wherever aren't consciously inspiring me, the outside stimulation gets the brain moving. I wouldn't say lazy at all :)

[splinteredstar]

Every now and then I get antsy and rearrange my room, and that makes my brain work again. So yeah, I totally get it.