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Feb 26, 2003 As you are sitting there in front of your computer, thinking up the next best book to write; you are then blocked. You cannot think of a single word or phrase to begin your story. You sit there and ponder until the desire to drink something takes over. My past experiences with this very thing has led me to share of what I had discovered. By drinking a hot cup of cocoa, definately gets the old literary juices flowing. Now, by adding marshmellows to your hot cocoa increases the literary progress ten fold. Not only that, but lemonade can be just as effective. Of course eating a snack or two wouldn't hurt either. It has been said that by eating food and or drinking something can be of great use in getting your brain to work better. At local coffee houses, the amount of people who are there drinking and typing away on their computers should be enough evidence for you that drinking caffinated drinks is a good thing. Many friends have noted that my days spent on writing has increased dramatically. All and all, my best advice to those who are still struggling with getting their next manuscript(s) published, is to give drinking hot cocoa or any other caffeine drinks a whirl. Drink enough caffeine, and the ideas would be flashing away at you. Is it any wonder of why you notice that latest editions of newspapers hit the stands at warp speed? That is corrct, the answer is caffeine. Even on the web, you can actually notice of how people are by whether or not they have had their caffeine by the amount of time that their messages are coming to you on messengers. For example, I had noted that on a chat room conversation that someone had three to four glasses of espresso. Just by the conversation alone, I could tell that they were on a major caffeine buzz. Boy, just writing about caffeine is making me thirsty for some. What is really something is root beer. For the longest time now, all that I had known about root beer was that it never had caffeine in it. That is until I drank some new kind of root beer one night. As I sat about my computer and drinking my root beer, I was reading my e-mails. While searching the web for wallpapers and such, I got into what I was doing so much that I didn’t notice the time. It had just became 4:00 in the morning when my eyes glazed over to the clock. As I laid on my bed getting ready to fall asleep, I got to thinking of the root beer that I had drank; and I got to thinking that maybe it had some caffeine in it. Immediately, my brain recalled about root beer not having caffeine in it; so I just dismissed it. That very morning, I checked my can of root beer and read the label. To my ultimate shock, there was caffeine listed on it. To which, my mom had mentioned that she too was awake until 4:00 in the morning too. Some might even say that water is the best source of caffeine. It is hard to imagine sometimes that even water is a great source for getting that extra bit of energy that you need to either write a best selling novel, or survive a hard days work. Even at the malls, you will see tons of people either chatting or writing down notes of a story idea. As you try to tune out the distracting loud noises that occupy the mall, you sit back and just drink your hot cocoa. Relish the words that are flowing about your head, creating words and phrases that are soon to be typed. If need be, feel free to completely relax and daydream of a happy place. One where you are in a spring meadow and the birds are happily singing pretty songs to you. The smells of the crisp spring air woft around you, the feel of the grass tickles your feet as you walk about it. As you walk about the grass, you see a path leading up to lake. From two feet away, you see a boat gently floating about in the water. As you near the lake, you could hear the bubbling of the water as it glides to and fro from the water’s edge. Visit Bob's website or email Bob Chalfant: bobc24@hotmail.com ------------ Comment on this column in the forum. ------------ |
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