Writer's High

[dr_mabeuse]

Just finished writing a chapter, went for like 6 hours straight, was cooking at the end, blowing.

The symptoms: A feeling of power, poetry, slight dizziness, feeling very musical, like I want to bop around, get physical, get laid. Disappointed I'm no longer in that world; miss my characters and their concerns. disoriented in a good way, kind of drunk. There's a definite equine rhythm to my thoughts, like sitting in the saddle of a galloping horse.

Writer's High. Anyone else ever get this?

 

[Stella_Omega]

I dimly remember this.... You lucky bastard!

 

[rgraham666]

Yep. But not for a while.

I'll echo Stella's sentiments.

 

[MarshAlien]

Ah, yesterday. I shipped so many chapters to my editor I included an apology. Just one of those days when the ink would have flowed from the pen, if I had been using an inkpen. Then I celebrated with a decaf. I'm livin' the high life now, baby!

 

[carsonshepherd]

Once upon a time, I knew this feeling. Then the internet came along...

 

[SemiColon]

Just finished writing a chapter, went for like 6 hours straight, was cooking at the end, blowing.

The symptoms: A feeling of power, poetry, slight dizziness, feeling very musical, like I want to bop around, get physical, get laid. Disappointed I'm no longer in that world; miss my characters and their concerns. disoriented in a good way, kind of drunk. There's a definite equine rhythm to my thoughts, like sitting in the saddle of a galloping horse.

Writer's High. Anyone else ever get this?

I'm totally with you, esp. the come down when you're done and miss your characters.

 

[English Lady]

Oh, I'm in the writers slog bit at the moment, but yes, I recognise this when nothing else matters but the words pouring out of you, when it just seems to magically flow from your mind to the screen and you just can't stop it...

*looks at fingers* come on girls, help me out here. I have a deadline to meet!

 

[Guest]

Oh, I'm in the writers slog bit at the moment, but yes, I recognise this when nothing else matters but the words pouring out of you, when it just seems to magically flow from your mind to the screen and you just can't stop it...

*looks at fingers* come on girls, help me out here. I have a deadline to meet!

Are you certain you're talking to your fingers, EL?

Zoot, I'm envious.

Must get my butt in gear today.

(House is fairly clean, no class today, no excuses.)

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Just finished writing a chapter, went for like 6 hours straight, was cooking at the end, blowing.

The symptoms: A feeling of power, poetry, slight dizziness, feeling very musical, like I want to bop around, get physical, get laid. Disappointed I'm no longer in that world; miss my characters and their concerns. disoriented in a good way, kind of drunk. There's a definite equine rhythm to my thoughts, like sitting in the saddle of a galloping horse.

Writer's High. Anyone else ever get this?

Only after getting a crick in my neck looking over Selma Druitt's shoulder to copy her answer to an essay question in history.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[SweetWitch]

Just finished writing a chapter, went for like 6 hours straight, was cooking at the end, blowing.

The symptoms: A feeling of power, poetry, slight dizziness, feeling very musical, like I want to bop around, get physical, get laid. Disappointed I'm no longer in that world; miss my characters and their concerns. disoriented in a good way, kind of drunk. There's a definite equine rhythm to my thoughts, like sitting in the saddle of a galloping horse.

Writer's High. Anyone else ever get this?

Yes, a few days ago when I finished my novella. I got over it quick, though, and started something new.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Yes, a few days ago when I finished my novella. I got over it quick, though, and started something new.

Yeah. The next chapter's a bitch. The break-up of a relationship. Anguish and pain, like pulling teeth. When you'd rather do anything than write, when writing hurts.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

DOC

I writes lots of essays. I'm better at essays than fiction and publish most of the essays I write. About once a month I get the experience you describe. The writing is good, and you know it. It's the pay-off we all strive for.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

DOC

I writes lots of essays. I'm better at essays than fiction and publish most of the essays I write. About once a month I get the experience you describe. The writing is good, and you know it. It's the pay-off we all strive for.

I wonder if it has to be good to get the Writer's High. I think it comes from being on an expressive roll, where the words just come. I guess most of the time that's good, but maybe not always.

It reminds me a lot of playing music, of taking a solo where you say just what you want to say and you're just exhilarated and ecstatic afterwards, transformed out of yourself, just like good sex. In music you feel like you're capable of turning anything into melody and in writing you feel like you're capable of turning anything into words. It's a feeling of power.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

DOC

I think it's the personal triumph you feel when you get the outcome YOU want. When you achieve or surpass your own internal standard.

 

[SweetWitch]

Yeah. The next chapter's a bitch. The break-up of a relationship. Anguish and pain, like pulling teeth. When you'd rather do anything than write, when writing hurts.

Sometimes that's the best way to write. It's cathartic at times.