This Is Your Brain on Book. Any Questions?

[rowyn]

Muse: GOOD MORNING!
Me: Unngh.
Muse: Did you know you could be writing The Moon Etherium RIGHT NOW?
Me: Muse ... Muse, it's 4AM.
Muse: I know! Time to get up and WRITE!
Me: You woke me up at 4AM.
Muse: You're welcome!
Me: Do you know when I went to sleep?
Muse: Umm ... Midnight?
Me: Do you know how much sleep human beings need per day?
Muse: Umm ... four hours?
Me: WRONG ANSWER.
Muse: Whatever. Don't you want to be writing now? Here, have some ideas for the next scene! You already started it! It'll be fun!
Me: NO I WANT TO BE ASLEEP.
Muse: Don't be silly! Book won't write itself, you know.
Me: Are you sure? Because it's doing a pretty good job so far. C'mon, let me sleep. I wrote 3100 words yesterday.
Muse: But it's Saturday!
Me: I KNOW. That means I could SLEEP LATE. IF YOU WOULD LET ME.
Muse: Don't you want to know how many words you can write on a day when you don't have to go to work?
Me: I don't know but I'm going to assume it's a lot less than yesterday. Especially on four hours of sleep.
Muse: Oh, c'mon, enough about sleep. Sleep is boring. You don't have anywhere to be, you can sleep any old time in the next two days. You could be writing nooooooooow!
Me: I'm just going to lie here in the dark until you shut up.
Muse: Howabout a LiveJournal post? I have a great idea for a post!
Me: Please shut up.
Muse: [spends next hour yammering about writing]
Me: I hate you so much. [gets out of bed]
Muse: \o/
Me: Just because I'm out of bed doesn't mean I'm going to write more of The Moon Etherium, you know. I could waste the whole day playing Flight Rising or something.
Muse: o/~Whatever you say, honey. o/~
Me: So much hate.
Muse: You don't mean that.
Me: ... no. But I really do need more sleep.
Muse: You're adorable. Have some MOAR IDEAS.
Me: -_-

Comments

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever had that happen for writing. Only for video games. q:3 "Hey! I know how to get past that boss you were stuck on! Wake up and go fight him now!"

[rowyn]

This has been every morning for me since, like, Tuesday. During the week, I managed to lie in bed in the dark for long enough that I'd eventually manage another hour or two of sleep, and then get up at around 6 or 7, which is more normal for me. But today it was extra hard not to get up, because I can take a nap at midday if I want.

My brain REALLY WANTS to write this story. Which is great. I would really like to have another book written! It's fun to be this interested in a story, and for writing to be the thing I want to do and not just the thing I want to have done. But it would be nice to get a reasonable amount of sleep at night. z_z

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

On the plus side, the more sleep you lose, the easier it will be to go to sleep on demand.

And off demand. You know, kind of at random.

[rowyn]

z_z

Oh, I remembered what this reminds me of. +terrible butterflies+. I had the same "can't sleep must +butterfly+" thing going on during the 2007 campaign especially. Some of the other PBEMs were a little like that, but +tb+ was the most.

[archangelbeth]

Heh. I used to get those... *wists*

[rowyn]

I'm gonna miss that Muse when things get back to normal, I just know it. n_n

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

It's kind of like soda, it's all fizzy when you've just popped it open, then it runs flat? :)

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

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