I remember when I first started writing the book I'm currently working on. It was in 2014 and I had awoken out of a dream with a brilliant idea. I was excited and that very same day I began writing in a copy book. I was writing for some days and researching some information based on my material, when I realized something very strange. I had become obsessed with my book. I don't know if other writers experience this but I literally could not put my book down, which began to affect my work life as a teacher and my social life. All I could think about was the concepts, the storyline, the characters and the world I was building. I preferred to write than to plan lessons. Every free time I got I was writing, my boyfriend at the time began to complain that I wasn't paying attention to him. And eventually after weeks of my life revolving around my book, I just put it away. Then I lost the book I was writing in. It's 2018 and I'm determined more than ever to finish writ
I don't know what's worse, finding a major cause of your anxiety or realizing that's your anxiety is most likely going to get worse the more you create. Let me explain. Being a creative person is like living in your own world. People most times don't understand where your head is (because most times it's up in the clouds) and if you talk about your ideas, people think you're crazy or not normal or 'interesting'. Some people are even fascinated by your mind and even want to be in a relationship with you, but as flattering as that sounds, those people really don't understand you, they are just infatuated by your creativity. So basically they are just fans, which is nice but isn't satisfying. Creatives especially writers tend to be introverts so needing people to be around us is not really of great importance to us. But those same humans that we prefer to be away from, are the same humans who have to read our work. This is it's own headache.