The midnight disease : the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain

Book 2005

"Why is it that some writers struggle for months to come up with the perfect sentence or phrase while others, hunched over a keyboard deep into the night, seem unable to stop writing? In The Midnight Disease, neurologist Alice W. Flaherty explores the mysteries of literary creativity: the drive to write, what sparks it, and what extinguishes it. She draws on intriguing examples from medical case studies and from the lives of writers, from Franz K...

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Authors Mental health

Authorship Psychological aspects

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Writer's block

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ISBN:

9780618485413

Edition:

First Mariner Books edition

Description:

307 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:

"A Mariner book."
Reprint. Originally published: c2004
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-283) and index

Contents:

Hypergraphia : the incurable disease of writing
Literary creativity and drive
Writer's block as state of mind
Writer's block as brain state
How we write : the cortex
Why we write : the limbic system
Metaphor, the inner voice, and the muse

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3240193

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