What are you if you're a writer and don't write? Is it a permanent state, like being an alcoholic, no matter how long it is since you produced something?
Absolutely.
Because even when you're not doing it - when you're blocked, or torpid, or just *not* interested - somewhere in the dark recessess of your soul you know, with utter certainty and conviction, that sooner or later you'll be jonesing for it.
That it's only a matter of time before you're hunched over a keyboard typing in to the wee small hours defying sleep, or scribbling furtively into books at work or on the move when inspiration hits, because the voices are back and the images and you simpy can't not write and that in many ways it would be simpler to not breathe than not write.
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carisma_sensei
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Date: 2004-11-22 04:16 pm (UTC)Absolutely.
Because even when you're not doing it - when you're blocked, or torpid, or just *not* interested - somewhere in the dark recessess of your soul you know, with utter certainty and conviction, that sooner or later you'll be jonesing for it.
That it's only a matter of time before you're hunched over a keyboard typing in to the wee small hours defying sleep, or scribbling furtively into books at work or on the move when inspiration hits, because the voices are back and the images and you simpy can't not write and that in many ways it would be simpler to not breathe than not write.
*g*