{"id":786,"date":"2009-07-21T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2009\/07\/21\/where-does-your-brain-get-your-ideas\/"},"modified":"2009-07-21T00:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T00:25:00","slug":"where-does-your-brain-get-your-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2009\/07\/21\/where-does-your-brain-get-your-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Does Your Brain Get Your Ideas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think writers are more familiar than anyone with the strange and unpredictable nature of inspiration. Suddenly, out of seemingly nowhere, a brilliant idea strikes. You might be awake or dreaming. You have to write it down NOW or you risk losing it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always known the best stories arose out of primordial mental <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20227141.200-disorderly-genius-how-chaos-drives-the-brain.html?full=true\"><b>chaos.<\/b><\/a> Now, science has proved it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Networks of brain cells alternate between periods of calm and periods of instability &#8211; &#8220;avalanches&#8221; of electrical activity that cascade through the neurons. Like real avalanches, exactly how these cascades occur and the resulting state of the brain are unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p>It might seem precarious to have a brain that plunges randomly into periods of instability, but the disorder is actually essential to the brain&#8217;s ability to transmit information and solve problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and write stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think writers are more familiar than anyone with the strange and unpredictable nature of inspiration. Suddenly, out of seemingly nowhere, a brilliant idea strikes. You might be awake or dreaming. You have to write it down NOW or you risk losing it. I&#8217;ve always known the best stories arose out of primordial mental chaos. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}