Hiya, writers & frenz —
Getting up from the keyboard every hour or day or so, is one of the things I’m bad at. Even though everyone says vigorous activity pumps oxygen to the brain and musculature.
Not least to relieve tension (we live in very tense times), but many writers say vigorous exertion and oxygen are good for the writing process.
Or some do.
Others say, “more coffee.”
W.C. Fields said, “Who put the pineapple juice in my pineapple juice?”
If the hyperactive duck over there makes you want to push aawaaaaay from the screen, that’s the plan!
By all means go run a few laps around the couch or the block or whatever, and meet back here after!
:)
Aaaaand here we all are again! Turns out I have 77 steps from desk chair to bookroom, around the back of the sofa to the hallway, thence bedroom’s furthest corner, back down hallway but through kitchen this time, to the back door and back to my chair. It’s not much, but I can get extra mileage out of it with dance music on, e.g., a traditional syrtos at what looks like a little science-fiction-fantasy-cosplay convention, maybe actually in Greece? HERE'S another syrtos, from a lovely motion picture :) (research finds that lifelong dance turns out to be a very good thing!)
Although not the akshul writing challenge tonight, do please comment in the thread about how you get yrself to take breaks, and what kind you’ve found especially good for shaking out the cobwebs, loosening the kinks in spine and imagination, restoring circulation to the cranium and characters —not to mention lower extremities— et cetera…. especially despite if it’s rilly hot out where you are … or the landscape is awash in flooding rain …
Weather permitting, would it be by washing the car? Running over to Aunt Franny’s to find out if her dog had puppies yet? Climbing into the ring with a lifesize inflatable version of your most-hated politician or plutocrat? Climbing up a mountain? Taking out the recyclables? Digging up the entire backyard to prepare for spring planting (in September!!) or just in case there’s buried treasure there?
Running around panicking might be good exercise. Lotsa opportunity for that, lately. Some physiatrists say active panic —as distinct from freezing up, the usually unnoticed member in the fight/flight/etc triad— is our evolutionarily developed method for forcing oxygen in. In martial arts, some teachers say the kiai is to help with that, among other purposes.
The whole web of the world agrees that LOLing is a requisite activity, of course. (Might be the only thing we agree on.)
What else we got here? People, pooties, bigfoot, etc., in motion.
I considered adding plumbers plumbing, pipers piping, sailors with semaphore flags, diaper-changing competitions...
….sheep-shearing, book-pumping (250lbs of library books turns out to weigh exactly the same as 250lbs of iron, isn’t that amazing?), outrunning a runaway bull at Pamplona, or outrunning the twister about to whirl Dorothy’s house off to Oz…
...which brings us to <big> The Challenge of the Evening!</big>
200 words or less of some protag[s] scrambling madly when something sudden happens!
Make every word earn its place on the page!
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