Too Much Noise

There are too many traffic jams of thoughts in my head at the moment. It seems that whilst my muse is sulking with me everything else is suddenly scrambling for attention. First and foremost my overthinking brain. This week’s classic case of overthinking goes to an advert.

I was watching TV to cover my annoyance at my lack of muse and a certain well known advert came up. You know the one with the Merekats. This particular one is where Nicole Kidman asks Sergei to choose between her and Aleksandr and of course for some crazy reason he chooses Sergei. Now this is where my overthinking stuff kicked in. I began analysing his reasons why. Why would you choose someone who abuses you both verbally and physically over Nicole Kidman? Now first of all my brain went randomly to an Americanism “Bros before hos” before finally settling on a case of Stockholm syndrome because he is clearly identifying with someone who has held him pretty much captive as his own personal slave all these years.

I mean really brain? Of all the things you could have been thinking of this week, like who is attacking a village in my novels fantasy world, or the name of that elusive bad guy that has been..well… eluding me for weeks you decided to settle on psycho-analaysing TV merekats!

There is too much noise in my head with all this over thinking and usual stresses and worries, no wonder my muse has packed it’s bags, it’s probably checked itself into a clinic for the overworked and underpaid, (I know I would).  All I can do is plead with it to come back to me and in the mean time, I need to drown out all this noise with something else.

How do other writer’s do it? Switch off everything else and focus on their writing?

Any ideas?