Some rambling ruminations this morning...
I often feel like writing, just the act itself, when I have absolutely nothing to say. Is this a result of the intermittent reward principle? Many's the time I've got the most exhilerating rush while writing, just the most unique high--many more times than I would have won at a casino, positing comparable writing/gambling events. So it should be no surprise that I'm addicted to the writing act.
I hadn't thought of it like that before, but it makes perfect sense. I wonder if anyone's ever done a study of the writer's brain chemistry--is there a big release of endorphins when you're "in the zone"? If so, will it be labelled a disorder in the DSMV VI? Will Writers Anonymous 12-Step Programs spring up?
It'd be hopeless, all they'd do would be trade stories and start critiquing -- or editing -- or brainstorming ideas -- or one-upping each other with Awful Rejections yarns.
"Hi, I'm Terry, and I'm a compulsive writer--"
"Are you the one who wrote that one story in--"
"No, no, that was some guy--"
"When's the WotF Contest deadline?"
"Doesn't matter, didn't you know? Those go all year round, quarterly contests--"
"Hey, guys, I've got one that might win that--"
"Let's see it!"
"I only brought 5 copies, you might have to share..."
Yeah, I pity the therapist who tries to start Writers Anonymous groups.
my interests, updated: science fiction, mysteries, science, history, and science history; and Paris and writing and sketching and knitting and sewing and, oh, whatever else comes up