I write as a form of therapy. When something is bothering me, I tend to pour it out through poetry. After getting out all of my feelings onto paper, I feel like I've spent a few hours with a good therapist. I Bleed in Ink is a poem that I wrote about this very subject.
I think conflicts in your own life are sometimes a great way to spur yourself on - there have been a number of times I have written after an argument or tension and this appears to provide quite a jet pack of fuel. However, as much as writing can be cathartic, I think it's dangerous to see it as therapy per se, I think you have to access writing without the need for dependence on a certain circumstance in your life. Life as a whole is the essential driving force, not the negative sides alone. We live in a world so focussed on the negative, it's easy for artists to think that pain can lead to their inspiration. Oft times its conflicts that make us step outside of us and that's the powerful force. Its the act of overcoming I think and though writing may help to illuminate that, the act itself isn't enough to be truly therapeutic.
My first book was cathartic. It was something I needed to do. However, I feel that 'stuff' is out of my system now. When you ask,"Are emotional conflicts a creative force?" I'm not sure. Too much emotional conflict is counter-productive. Yet, I will say it is like I can remember those strong, difficult emotions when I touch on certain subjects, even now. Power under control is my desired frame of mind.
Didn't I just answer that?
Yes, writing is a form of personal therapy and yes internal conflicts are a creative force. Isn't every author some brooding sociopath?
I think writing is always therapy, whether it be journal entry writing or dedicated writing for novels or other books. My belief is that internal conflicts are resolved through expression and meditation. We find our inner peace in individual ways. For some, that may be through the medium of writing.
My novels have not come about through an internal conflict, however there is a romantic notion I have always entertained that maybe I had another lifetime in the Caribbean amongst scallywags...who knows?
It can be when it's a personal type of essay/post such as on my blog (http://lseegert.wordpress.com). That's where I get to rant, and express my opinions - something I can't do as a journalist or corporate writer. I do find that some academic writing is cathartic - if I can develop a position paper or argument on a topic I care about - and back it up.
My internal conflicts usually have to do with what I client wants versus what I think might work better. Sometimes you just have to sigh and give in. Other times, if you really believe a certain paragraph or approach works better, you need to argue your point (respectfully of course).
Yes, in a way I think it is a form of therapy. It helps to reduce clutter from my brain. Instead of moping about disasters that might affect me or my family one day, I fill my imagination with fictitious plotting.
Not so sure about internal conflicts being a creative force -- I need peace, tranquility and even boredom, to empty my mind before the muse will settle there.
It sure can be, but it doesn't need to be necessary so. What is true is that expressing yourself keeps your energy in motion and this helps in the resolution of conflicts.
Personal therapy??? Yes for sure. I began writing because I needed something to be able to direct my thoughts to....a diversion of sorts. I find that I write the most when I am dealing with a conflict or crisis in my life.
I write because I really like to. There is nothing personal in anything I write. I'll leave the personal writings for those who have ideas of changing the world or helping others.
Writing is liberating...... It melts that angst in you. Writing is indeed therapeutic .
Yes, inner conflicts urge me to write more
I'd say so. Writing has helped me in many ways. I find that on a hard day, I can just enter my mind, and escape into the computer. It is nice, and I find it can be similar to meditating.
I think internal conflicts are creative force. When I am upset or angry, my writing is much more powerful. I tend to use anything negative, in the most positive way I can.
A little bit. Writing always makes me feel better when I'm down, but at the same time I don't let my own problems saturate my story and make it too personal. My characters and my story learn from life the same way I do, and it's grown with me as I've grown. But I try to make something positive out of it, rather than turning it into a sob-fest.
When younger it enabled me to re-live those moments I did not want to let go of... some of us love to be unhappy... But that was only with poetry or fiction- Im also a non-fiction writer, and that occupies another sphere of my sentiments. Injustice, anger, disgust... those are, but not only, some of the things that spurn me to blog.
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