Monday, February 16, 2009

My Exploding Brain

These are some things I've learned about in the past week:

* plants and payoffs - from Alexandra Sokoloff
* breaking the fourth wall, a theater term - from Wikipedia
* suspension of disbelief, theories -- from Wikipedia
* villains -- from a writing class, and Alexandra Sokoloff
* character development techniques -- from many sources
* root story -- from a class
* web site making -- from experimenting
* "down time" ideas -- from P. D. James
* fantasy nodes -- from Wikipedia

I can feel the synapses in my brain sparking against each other, and new connections being made, and my brain flexing like a weight lifters arms.

Thank goodness it doesn't hurt!

What about you? Have you ever experienced this kind of mind expanding learning time? What were you learning? How long did it last? Why did it happen then?

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