Writing...as Therapy
I have been working hard on my writing this year. I am doing NaNoWriYe with a current wordcount goal of 200,000 words by the end of the year. If I get back into the swing of things in March, I will far surpass that; right now I am a bit behind. Such is life. :)
Right now I am working on what looks like it will be a novella. It is both hard to write and compelling to me. It's working title is Razor. It deals with the obvious themes of cutting and psychiatric disorders from the working title. The opening scene is a cutting scene and might be found disturbing by many, but for me it was a form of therapy. I wrote it directly before I checked myself into the hospital for help. I am now in group therapy and I find the main character using the skills I am learning about in the class.
This is an obvious case of writing being used as therapy. Personally, I think I am doing a very good job of using this novella to get a lot of my personal SI urges out on paper instead of on my body or my pocketbook. Of course, I am the author, so I am prejudiced. ;)
I think even my romance and erotica serve a therapeutic purpose when I write them. Oddly enough, during different points in my life, I have been unable to write both. The funny thing is that being in a good relationship or being super depressed about not having one at all have both been writing blockers.
So what do you write when you are angry, sad, hurt, or just plain old happy?
eli.
Right now I am working on what looks like it will be a novella. It is both hard to write and compelling to me. It's working title is Razor. It deals with the obvious themes of cutting and psychiatric disorders from the working title. The opening scene is a cutting scene and might be found disturbing by many, but for me it was a form of therapy. I wrote it directly before I checked myself into the hospital for help. I am now in group therapy and I find the main character using the skills I am learning about in the class.
This is an obvious case of writing being used as therapy. Personally, I think I am doing a very good job of using this novella to get a lot of my personal SI urges out on paper instead of on my body or my pocketbook. Of course, I am the author, so I am prejudiced. ;)
I think even my romance and erotica serve a therapeutic purpose when I write them. Oddly enough, during different points in my life, I have been unable to write both. The funny thing is that being in a good relationship or being super depressed about not having one at all have both been writing blockers.
So what do you write when you are angry, sad, hurt, or just plain old happy?
eli.