conversation with the brain

[swan_tower]

Conscious Mind: <singing> Revise, revise, revise the book . . . .

Subconscious: Oooh!

Conscious Mind: Yes?

Subsconscious: This is what the book's about!

CM: Yes, we know that.

SC: Nononono. I mean, yes, but think about this.

CM: I did. Months ago. And that's about as far as I got.

SC: Get ready to go farther. What if [spoiler]'s motivation was Y, not X?

CM: !!!

SC: Uh-huh.

CM: OMG. That works. So well. And it fits with the --

SC: Uh-huh.

CM: Not sure where to first bring it up, but we can totally work that here, and all through this bit, and --

SC: <preens>

CM: . . .

SC: What?

CM: Except that we resolved that conflict based on the assumption of Motivation X. Just how is this supposed to work out if it's Y instead?

SC: . . .

CM: C'mon. You got me started down this road; you finish it.

SC: <ninja vanish>

CM: I hate it when she does that.

Comments

[difrancis.livejournal.com]

I am amused. Well, okay, I'm amused as long as my subconscious doesn't do any ninja vanishing as I finish this revision. Hee!

[celestinenox]

I hate it when she does that, too. =.= Stupid ninja subconscious.

[nojojojo.livejournal.com]

HEY!! How did you read my mind?!

Though my SC tends to do the wizardy thing and vanish with a flourish and a puff of smoke first.

[gollumgollum.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhhhh?

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose you'd be available for a phone call? <g>

[mirrorred-star.livejournal.com]

Don't you just hate how the awesome does that? It's evil. Awesome, but evil.