Sillybean

Shut up, brain.

Last night I finished writing the last chapter of my WordPress book (huzzah! confetti!) and went promptly to bed, being rather worn out.

Not ten minutes later, my brain coughed up a scene and a plot complication for the mystery novel I put on the back burner several months ago.

Dear voices in my head,

I appreciate your enthusiasm, and I most heartily sympathize with your desire to get back to producing fiction as quickly as possible. However, allow me to remind you that we have just written a rather lengthy nonfiction tome, and will be dealing with revision requests for some weeks to come. If you could please knock it off for a week or so to allow us a little rest, that’d be great.

Even a day or two would be most welcome.

Sincerely,
Mgmt.

I mean, come ON.

I didn’t get to sleep until 4 a.m.

Posted on March 24, 2010 at 2:31 pm in Writing · 2 comments

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2 Responses to “Shut up, brain.”

  1. Nojh says:

    Wow. Your voices are far more masochistic than mine. Mind just constantly tell me more and different things I should do and never give me time to do them…

    Wait I guess thats similar…

  2. Scott Zrubek says:

    So, did you write down what your brain was telling you? Do you save those mystery ideas?

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