And now for something completely different

From the moment I started work today I found myself engaged in the mundane tasks that I wrote about in Escape the Mundane. A mountain of validating and editing training curriculum beckoned me to press on. That kind of work makes the day go very fast, but it doesn't exactly evoke a lot of creativity. Just after lunch and gobbling another chapter of 59 Seconds, I slipped back to my lair to Prnt Scrn, edit shots, and catalog images for the manual.

In the morning I was using two laptops to do my work. In the afternoon, my faithful Dell was able to be my music source and visual distraction. For my visual I applied Wiseman's advice and put up an image of geometric shapes. At a point that I wearied of my cutting and pasting, I sat back and looked at the geo-shapes. The idea behind the exercise is to let your mind be engaged into something completely different than your current activity.

Instead of focusing on my current situation I thought about my problem of writer's fatigue with a script I need to finish. I posed a question to myself: How can I review my script in a fresh way? I pondered the geo-shape (insert) for a few minutes, and then went for a short walk down the hall. Almost as soon as I left my office I could feel my brain percolating with an idea. Eureka!

The answer my friend came with a whoosh! Record the script using Camtasia and listen to it on my commutes to Pueblo. Record it in Camtasia so I can also listen to it at work with the script automatically flipping page-to-page with my reading. To capture and reinforce that creative thought I made a date in my date timer for Saturday to do the recording.

Very cool how the brain works. I can't wait to try this on other mental roadblocks. Speaking of something completely different...