{"id":5811,"date":"2021-04-07T19:59:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T23:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=5811"},"modified":"2021-04-07T19:59:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T23:59:38","slug":"mind-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/writing\/mind-tide\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spring Sky<\/p><\/div>\n

In the past two months, I\u2019ve written 24K words in a document of brainstorming where, in theory, I test run ideas. Most days, it feels like I\u2019m simply typing, keeping my fingers going. Hello, there, fingertips. Weird and boring and random things show up there, but I don\u2019t go back to erase. I don\u2019t care if I repeat. I let myself daydream. I look up bits of research and drop them in so they\u2019re somewhere, not really refindable, but still there. I invoke Tennessee Williams with his \u201cLoss, loss, loss\u201d line about the ticking of the clock when he was not doing his art, like I\u2019m reminding myself of an inside joke where I don\u2019t have to explain anything to myself because we understand.<\/p>\n

The document has messy honesty and purity that I relish–my own, personal mind tide. If you\u2019re brainstorming, too, I encourage you to try your own version of such a document.<\/p>\n

On a more coherent note, I learned from a friend recently that one of my blog posts mattered to her. She mentioned that she hadn\u2019t been able to comment on it, and when my tech guy looked into that, we learned that my comment system had been effectively closed for, oh, about a year.<\/p>\n

I had to laugh. Life and technology are just curious sometimes.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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