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Use Your Brain
I read an article about brain function and how the brain communicates during creative function. At rest or non-creativity, the brain has a lot of transmission deep in the subcortical part of the brain stem, the thalamus and cerebellum. Things fire up and get a lot more active during the brain's creative mode. Different areas the brain are active and actually cross-communicate while in creative mode.
What comes to mind is writer's block. Can neuroscience help with writer's block? Or will there be technology or training in the future to help? Future neuromodulation could possible help with creativity. We might be able to wear a device that could stimulate creativity. Further, a non-creative person could wear a device to train their brain to be more creative. That raises a lot of questions about ethics in the future.
In the meantime, think about stimulating your creativity, think about training your brain to think more creatively. Use your mind to encourage divergent thoughts. Untrain the "one track mind". It can't hurt to try to stimulate your creativity in any way, can it? It's something to consider with NaNoWriMo coming up.
In any case, Write On!
This month's question: Besides writing, what creative things do you do?
Answer below  Editors love feedback! 
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Excerpt: I shouted across the corridor "Is everything OK uncle Phil?"
"Well boy, you see, they didn't have any pineapples at the store this week so I had to go with the mango." uncle Phil said.
"He's talking nonsense Jimmy, don't worry ..." mom whispered.
Excerpt: “Trisha, why do you keep saying you hate yourself?” the old guidance counselor, Mr Harvey, asked her one morning. He had seen her only a handful of times, but each time, she had stated she disliked herself. The child shrugged.
Excerpt: Slowly her senses began awakening, below her a heavy mauve mist rose from the rocks, seeping into the air with time-worn patience, undulating with slow regular consistency. Off to her right starburst orange and emerald green vapours drifted out of the citrus orchard, the spiky emerald coiling and twisting with and around the calmer orange.
Excerpt: D.I.Y. season is upon me, but I have a problem. My creative vision is impaired by my limited eye-hand co-ordination. Hammering a nail should be a simple process, but concentrating on its head causes me to lose sight of the swinging hammer. My left hand doesn't think it's fair that it's always the vulnerable one. Dropping the nail, scrambling for the nail, bending the nail, missing the nail, or burying the nail too deep.... You get the picture. Even hanging a portrait or artwork is difficult.
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Excerpt: I knocked on the door of the house and an unfamiliar woman answered. "Did our ponies get out of their pasture? Thank you for finding them." I was seven years old, short for my age and wearing jeans and a tomboy style corduroy jacket. Yet I did not hesitate to assert to the giant adult before me, "I need to take them home now."
The woman placed her hands on her hips and looked down with a sour expression. "How do I know they belong to you?"
Excerpt: AND THEN, and then, it happened. I was visited by The Blue Screen of Death. This is much like the grim reaper for computers. It hunts around, looking for the weak and vulnerable, then swoops in and shuts everything down. The Blue Screen of Death is an insidious, dispassionate thing.
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This month's question: Besides writing, what creative things do you do?
Answer below Editors love feedback!
Last month's question: What are your favorite horror/scary phrases??
BIG BAD WOLF is hopping  responded: It all depends on how you define Horror. To a creature of the Night, the Light of the Sun is a scary thing.
Beacon - House Night's Watch  answered: I don't have any phrases that I like but I do like Michael Myers from Halloween.
s  replied: I don't have any phrases, but read the description of the tree that they have to climb over to get the real cemetery in Stephen King's Pet Semetary and that is some of the best horror description ever, maybe some of the best description outside of the moors in Wuthering Heights or the Ents' forest in Lord Of The Rings. The bone metaphor, the seeming living movements... superb.
Scifiwizard Retired posted: "Get out." Terminator.
"I see dead people." The sixth Sense.
"You're going to need a bigger boat." Jaws.
"We need you to work late." My boss.  
TINMAN 4000  quoted: "We all FLOAT down here."
BradJShaw ⚓ said: Captain Barbarossa: Ya gotta start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner. YOU'RE IN ONE!
Paul  sent: Imagine yourself, awake on an operating table and the doctors there with his hands inside you and you hear, “Oops.”
tj ~ endeavors to persevere!  imagines: That sound you hear at night. That scratching sound. That’s the rats trying to gain entry into your home.
elephantsealer scares us: First, it was a small scratch. Then, the second came with a bang. There IT stood, a caricature of a headless creature, scratching and kicking its tail!!!!
Thaddeus Buxton Winthrop sends: Have to go with The Exorcist, when the girl/Legion,one of many demons says, "Your Mother is in here with us!" Automatic shivers down the spine.
Or in the Omen, when the woman says, "It's all for you Damien". And throws herself off the top of the building hanging herself. Goosebumps galore!
jdennis  replied: No phrase, but the scene in "Alien," when the baby alien bursts through the gut of the science officer.
dragonwoman answered: creepy, ghoulish, long legged beasties, things that go bump in the night
Xeno mentions: "I don't know you." -everyone
Hiking Partner adds: I like the previously mentioned "We all float" and "It's all for you Damian!" I'll add "Jill, we've traced the call it's coming from inside the house! Get out of the house, get out of the house!!!!"
TheBusmanPoet ends with: Things that'll make a grown up cry of fright.
Thank you all for your responses!!!
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