I never knew!

[elfs]

I never knew I was such a problem!

On the other hand, looking through the vast and strange array of novels written in the 1950s and 1960s, here on a single subject, I can only get more and more depressed. Who remembers any of these writers? Are they anything more than curiosities? Sometimes, writing just doesn't feel like something with an objective above and beyond just getting a momentary rush of attention.

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[riverheart.livejournal.com]

the GOAL is to get the words out of your head, because they won't leave you in peace until you do. At least, that's how it works for me with poetry. I *have to* write. I do not have the option not to write, because if I don't, it keeps plaguing me until I do. This has been going on since I was about eight, at the latest, and possibly started earlier; I used to tell stories to my brother and sister, before I learned to write, because there was no other way to get the words out of my head.

Once I have them written down, they leave me alone for a while, until the next time.