All the sides to all the stories

[brightlotusmoon]

You guys, I amaze myself. I've been writing helter skelter all over the place: Novel, stories, novellas, blogs, facebook, notebooks with various pens, everywhere... in the middle of a postictal migraine and insanely horrific agonizing chronic pain flare-up following recovery from a panic attack. If I didn't have a computer or paper I might write on

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[chaosvizier]

I wish I had your power to write. I sit there and want to write and nothing happens. And when something does happen, only terrible things pop out. Cheeky writing!

[brightlotusmoon]

That happens to me so much. It's actually why it's taken me so long to submit my novel manuscript to agencies.

There's a book I'm currently reading called "The Midnight Disease: The Drive To Write, Writer's Block, And The Creative Brain." By Alice W. Flaherty. I highly recommend it. My mother sent it to me when I was in a depressive episode. Reading in that state really sparked my thoughts. It talks a lot about Hypergraphia - which I actually kind of want. It means never having standard writer's block. But it also means being unable to stop writing.

Like that issue of Neil Gaiman's Sandman when a blocked author kidnaps a muse, Calliope, and becomes extremely famous, and then Morpheus finds him, and curses him with what would be a severe extreme form of hypergraphia, and he winds up writing on walls with bloody fingernails because of all the stories exploding in his head.

[chaosvizier]

I loved that Sandman story. Then again, I loved pretty much all Sandman stories. Even the horrific ones. Or maybe especially.

I guess I write NaNo because of this - forcing myself to write no matter what. Somehow it motivates me when it doesn't work the rest of the year. Cheeky brain.

[brightlotusmoon]

Also, hey, are you on Facebook? I keep forgetting to ask. If you are, just find me under "Joanna Capello Paul"