The other plus point is research – and that brings us to where the being somewhere else comes in, because writing non-fiction books requires months, if not years, in libraries and archives and record offices, reading newspapers, invariably on that mind-numbing interim technology, microfilm.
Can't afford to get tired or lazy or lift your eyes from the road to appreciate the way the fog reshapes the palms on Ocean Avenue or the light slips down the flanks of the mountains on that mind-blowing stretch of Highway 1 between Malibu and Oxnard.
The answer depends on what that mind is asked to do.
He has changed his mind on that.
You've obviously changed your mind on that.
I haven't made up my mind on that.
They haven't made up their minds on that".
The debate would change few people's minds on that.
"Words that lean on the mind are no good," according to Baxter.
Write down everything that's on your mind that you need to do.
"The Castle," though, has more than that on its mind.
