Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.
Writing is a very calming thing for me.
I write a lot because, if I don't, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write.
'Shun security,' I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. 'Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isn't agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.'
Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.
It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself - to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page.
I don't have the fear I won't be able to think of something else to write. It's what I do.
Writing is inherently scary.
Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.