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Archive for December 2010

Left Brain, Right Brain, Lizard Brain

Colorful lizard sunning self on a rock

I’ve read the left brain is the intellect. The editor.  The scientist or data geek.  The right brain is the creative side.  Emotion.  Imagination.  Belief in limitless possibilities.  And the lizard brain? Well, the lizard brain just wants food and a warm comfy place to catch some rays and work on its tan. A lot of great writers are very right-brained.  This makes sense.  It’s the sweet spot for creativity, […]

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Slow Burn

I had a writing friend years ago who was absolutely prolific with her writing. She seemed to produce pages every week without effort, and never seemed to run out of story ideas.  When she got her first book contract, she had ten completed novels hanging in the wings. My husband is that way with story ideas.  Mention an idea to him, he’ll get a flash of inspiration and riff off […]

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Dreams

Everyone has dreams… Some happen while you sleep.  But the big dreams…they usually happen while you’re wide awake.  They’re the wishes, hopes, desires that drive us toward something new. I’m a big proponent of dreams.  I dream every night.  Big, cinematic dreams with wild action and deep meanings that I often fail to grasp.  In my dreams, I’ve managed to learn how to fly, how to shoot a gun and […]

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