By Joan
Whetzel
Look up Writing Chocolate on the internet and you find a gazillion
entries for a liquid form of chocolate that can be squeezed through a pastry
tip. It's used to write chocolate messages on cakes, pastries, and candies. But
for me, writing chocolate fulfills my chocolate cravings - and feeds my muses - while I'm writing..
There are a lot of theories about why people - a huge majority of them
women - crave chocolate. Some say it has to do with the hormones that are out
of whack during "that time of the month" and during menopause. Since
I am old enough that I am no longer experiencing these hormonal cravings, I can
pretty much count these out as causes.
Some say the cravings are due to an addiction to caffeine (a cousin to
chocolate). I can't drink that much coffee. it keeps me up and gives me a
headache if I drink too much, which I don't get when consuming mass quantities
of chocolate.
Some say that cravings indicate that the body needs more magnesium, which
chocolate provides in spades. Well, that's a possibility I suppose.
Mostly, though, it is believed that chocolate works on the brain's
chemistry, increasing serotonin levels that produce a calming effect. Okay,
I'll admit I have noticed this effect.
For me, though, it also seems to stimulate my imagination and make it
easier to write. That's why I keep a bowl of miniature size chocolates in my
office. I do, however, have to keep my bowl of writing chocolate far away from
my writing desk. Otherwise, I find I have consumed most of the bowl during the
writing of 1 or 3 articles. Doling them out a few at a time keeps my writing
muses happy, and the words flowing.
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