Writing: New Experiences Create Romance; Routine Kills It

I never believed this type of thinking. Now I know why.As many of you know, I am working on a book based on blog articles I’ve written on the subject of overcoming suicide. The fourth draft was finished a couple of months ago, but the editor I chose for the project was out on maternity leave. We got together last Saturday and went over her notes and ideas. She liked what she saw, had some creative suggestions, and I am very excited to get busy with draft five. Too bad I have so much boring freelance work to do first. I’ve been so busy (and depressed) that I wasn’t able to work on this article until now. It isn’t something that comes easy to me because I don’t often write about the process of writing, but there was something about writing I wanted to explore. I find blogs by unpublished authors with tips on the writing process a bit pretentious, and, frankly, a bit dull. Writing about writing is as boring as a two hour lecture on the nature of drawing at eight in the morning. I did that in my college days, and I thought the class was going to kill me. It was ADHD Hell. Yet here I am about to contemplate my writing navel. It all started with an epiphany. I had just finished yet another K-drama about young, inhumanly beautiful twenty-somethings pretending to be teens and realized that K-dramas were no different than any drama found on the CW. Of course, there are far fewer oiled bodies and torrid love scenes in high school locker rooms, but the gist of it was the same:...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - Category: Mental Illness Tags: ADHD Depression Writing Source Type: blogs