southwestforests
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Brain Fog -- there is a thing which is similar but different, in addition to the classic description of brain fog.
Example:
Creative writers group this morning,
A thing we frequently do along with our other things is an exercise of 25 minute time writing to provided prompts.
Today my brain was not up to creating from scratch.
I could talk about books read in the past.
I could talk about my answer to a book publishing question on here and ask if my input seemed valid.
I could talk about posts seen yesterday on the "Writeblr" section of Tumblr.
After getting home I could assemble a few model airplane kit parts.
But ...
Mentally creating content from scratch out of thin air ain't gonna happen so far today.
Maybe later.
Maybe not.
Can only know at the specific moment.
But the trend indicates that today is not the day.
Not going to be creating content for my own sci-fi story I play at writing.
Not going to be designing people or places or hardware for it.
Not going to be designing parts for railroad models I'm scratchbuilding.
Not going to be designing additional detail parts for previously mentioned 1911 airplane model kit.
There is insufficient mental energy for that.
Write this comment talking about already existing previous and current life experiences, yes, but do creation of new stuff, no.
Example:
Creative writers group this morning,
A thing we frequently do along with our other things is an exercise of 25 minute time writing to provided prompts.
Today my brain was not up to creating from scratch.
I could talk about books read in the past.
I could talk about my answer to a book publishing question on here and ask if my input seemed valid.
I could talk about posts seen yesterday on the "Writeblr" section of Tumblr.
After getting home I could assemble a few model airplane kit parts.
But ...
Mentally creating content from scratch out of thin air ain't gonna happen so far today.
Maybe later.
Maybe not.
Can only know at the specific moment.
But the trend indicates that today is not the day.
Not going to be creating content for my own sci-fi story I play at writing.
Not going to be designing people or places or hardware for it.
Not going to be designing parts for railroad models I'm scratchbuilding.
Not going to be designing additional detail parts for previously mentioned 1911 airplane model kit.
There is insufficient mental energy for that.
Write this comment talking about already existing previous and current life experiences, yes, but do creation of new stuff, no.