Writing as a mental illness....
Feb. 21st, 2004 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geovikiAn interesting article in today's paper brought to my attention a little-known disease: Hypergraphia - the overwhelming desire to write.
No, it's real. Really. Here's a description from someone who had it:
"But my writing felt like a disease: I could not stop, and it sucked me away from family and friends. It dried up other sensations: music became irritating discord, the visual world grew faint. . . . For the next four months, I ricocheted daily between euphoria and terror."
This article is a review of this book by Alice W. Flaherty: The Midnight Disease: The Drive To Write, Writer's Block and the Creative Brain (Houghton Mifflin, $24).
Link is here
No, it's real. Really. Here's a description from someone who had it:
"But my writing felt like a disease: I could not stop, and it sucked me away from family and friends. It dried up other sensations: music became irritating discord, the visual world grew faint. . . . For the next four months, I ricocheted daily between euphoria and terror."
This article is a review of this book by Alice W. Flaherty: The Midnight Disease: The Drive To Write, Writer's Block and the Creative Brain (Houghton Mifflin, $24).
Link is here
