When Does Research Become a Fixation?

I pull back the curtain a bit today, revealing a deep, dark secret about myself —a secret so dank, surely I’ll lose the last three readers I have.I’ve been reading far too many Japanese light novels lately.It started as a form of research, but now I actually like the darn things. I can’t get enough of them. They’re my personal Pandora’s Box. I opened the beautiful, ornately engraved box, saw the plentiful wonders inside, and now I can’t shut the lid. Is this anADHD obsession, or a newfound joy? I can’t tell, which is why I’m troubled. Have you seen myGoodreads timeline? I read almost all escapist manga and light novels these days. I knowI’ve been struggling with depression lately, but it’s embarrassing! I’m sitting here wearing a Fair Isle style, wool sweater, a designer, long-sleeved, henley shirt, and Izod tech pants, not a 1-ply t-shirt featuring Sailor Moon with chip crumbs all over my belly. How will my polished author image survive this lapse in pretentiousness?In 2019, I had noticed that many of my favorite anime that season had origins as light novels in Japan. The more I looked into them, the more I realized that most anime was based on successful light novels. I’m not sure when they crowded out manga as the number one source. Even many successful manga are light novel spin-offs these days.The best way to describe a light novel is as if pulp fiction and anime had a baby. Most stories are told i...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Depression Writing Source Type: blogs