Writing Nude: Focus Your Mind To The Task Of Writing

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Crackling away doing two things at once - oops there's another thought just popped in - 'The language police are out to get you!' - that will have to wait for another time - my mind trying to segregate each flighty wisp of idea into the appropriate compartment for dissemination, it buzzes: you can see the thaumatological blueness emanating from each hair follicle, dancing into the coolness of the unheated room.

And that is probably why the thought was born. Crikey, it's cold in here. My mind telling me, unconsciously, that a little heat would not go amiss. Even though I am clothed there are small goose-bumps appearing on my flesh as the temperature subsides as late afternoon approaches.

So the thought was born, bringing with it the chance to examine the phenomenon, and to contemplate whether the experience had made any difference to the quantity of work completed. It is unlikely that it would have had any effect on the quality of the work, there is just so much a little cool air can achieve.

In my article 'Writing Online 101: 5 Essential Tasks for Success' I extrapolated on the notion that one should organize your writing environment to be as conducive to the writing experience as possible. I must admit that I did not expound on the matter of optimum temperature within the work-place. 

If my mind serves me well, and I am not mistaken, certain experiments have been undertaken to determine the optimum working conditions involving physical activity, and for those involving mental activity. It is the latter that we are to consider:

• Being hot and sweaty is not conducive
• Being freezing cold is equally unhelpful
• And little bear said that just under 60 degrees seemed just about right.

So, how do we achieve that optimal temperature. How do we ensure that we can focus our mind to the task of writing?

There are two main ways:

1. Influence the conditions around us
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Unlike supercomputers, where the synapses fire faster when nearing absolute zero, our minds are not of superconducting material fused for the flash of electricity, they are molecular structures that allow the passing of chemical signals across minuscule gaps between the component parts.

Chemical reactions are influenced by entropy and part of the entropy equation is reliant on temperature. A different end product is encountered at differing temperatures. This is the basis on which our functioning as writers is influenced.

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2. Influencing our own bodily temperature

And that is where my mind went into overdrive. How? What? Why? When?..... shudder. The thought hung in my mind for those few milliseconds that are enough to ingrain a picture on the insides of ones eyelids. And that picture was not good. Neither was the thought. Where had that come from?

And the thought, bringing all the factors together, was by:

Writing nude!

That is the way to focus the mind to the task of writing.

Why? Because it:

• Regulates the body temperature by placing more of it in a position for wafts of air to dissipate heat and moisture (sweat to you and me).
• Informs the brain when the temperature rises above, or falls below, the optimal. Our bodies are capable of differentiating temperature adjustments of as little as 2 degrees.
• Removes all vestiges of the material world touching our body and soul.
• Allows us to contemplate our navel without relying on memory.
• Frees our mind from worrying 'Does my bum look big in this?'.
• Makes us complete the task of writing, just in case someone drops in on us, unannounced.
• Makes us all the more in touch with our physical selves - now stop that, you will go blind!
• Secures our place in the list of writers who have been known to write nude, which include: Victor Hugo, Ernest Hemingway, D.H Lawrence and James Whitcomb Riley (more about that, and them, here).

So, I commend the practise to you.

Writing nude can focus your mind to the task of writing!

You know I'm always thinking about...........your well-being!