More on process

While I'm dealing with reality, I need to acknowledge that for me to write personally satisfying work, work that makes me full, corrects my sense of schism, and (from the few accolades I've accrued) is good, I need to drop down to this very obsessive place and then stomp around in it. I don't in anyway believe that writers and good artists require this kind of unhealthy tremble to create. I don't think good writers need to be alcoholics, Emos, or on medication. But I have, in partnering with someone who is so much more 'on the table' about things found that letting the natural process FOR ME take over appears very, very distressful when viewed by someone with a different creativity.

Still, once I'm "inside" a piece it all irons out. But I'm not great company when I'm writing. OK, at moments I am, but I'm disengaged from a lot of things and people.