The Midnight Disease

[thecurtain]

"...I...began to wonder if people who wrote fiction were not suffering from some kind of disorder--from what I’ve since come to think of, remembering the wild nocturnal rockings of Albert Vetch, as the midnight disease. The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at every conscious moment its victim--even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon--feels like a person lying in a sweltering bedroom, with the window thrown open, looking up at a sky filled with stars and airplanes, listening to the narrative of a rattling blind, an ambulance, a fly trapped in a Coke bottle, while all around him the neighbors sleep soundly." ~~Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon

I am so exhausted, and I have such a headache, but I feel so inspired to write it's ridiculous.