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Originally Posted by genetic
The artist is entitled to his/her peculiarities in writing, as dark heart suggests, I feel sure. Dr. Kay Jamison Redfield has written about the fact that many artists (who comprise a much higher percentage of bipolar patients than the average population--about 20%) must have an experience of trauma, or melancholia, or depression--whatever one wants to call it--that drives the creative spark in some writers.
Joyce Carol Oates declines to accept that view and believes that calmness and
quietness are the keys for writing (as well as the giftedness, of course).
I believe in both: even in the sensitivity that writers have to beauty, and I think that is a strong drive for creativity.
Whatever suits if it works!
Genetic
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As a writer myself... I can say that, yes, bipolar did used to effect my writing. Now it really effects it, because I can't write. I try. I want to. I have ideas that blow away before I can fully form them. I used to have a great talent at grammer and spelling. That is slowly deteriorating away.
I used to read, and read, and read. Now, I can barely read most forum posts let alone a whole novel. It took me 8 months to read a novel that took me a week when I was 14.
It is the thing I hate most about this illness. I'm losing the most important part of myself like sand through my fingers....