12:40am March 23, 2012

Writing break

I’ve been having serious trouble – as in, literally not being able to stop until I become physically unable to continue, by which point my body is in bad shape – avoiding writing things that wear me out to write. Both from intellectual difficulty or from emotional difficulty. And I don’t really have that energy to spare. The problem is that hypergraphia is incredibly hard to resist.

So a friend has told me the best plan is to say that for three weeks, I can’t write about anything that’s either difficult to write, or Serious Issues. (So I can write about cats, but not about anything that involves a lot of struggling for words, nor about things like the way feral cats are rounded up and killed for no good reason.) She said I might be able to give myself tiny breaks for a few hours every few days, but I’m not going to think of that yet.

So hopefully I’ll be able to actually keep to this until April 13th. And if I don’t, she says, I’ll at least have managed to tone it down somewhat. And writing it in public makes it harder to back out of, so that’s what I’m doing.

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