Creative talent often comes with mental instability, amirite?

Ever since I felt a lot better about myself, even a little vain, my writing has decreased and I can't write anything good now that I feel "normal"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I am so sorry. It is the worst thing, this "normal" it attacks the creative and turns them to slop. I was suffering from a bad case of "normal", then I joined theatre.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's incredibly true.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

""What garlic is to food, insanity is to art." - Augustus Saint-Gaudens. I would like this quote a lot more if I actually liked garlic though.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

True. But sometimes a little insanity is a good thing. It helps the creative juices to flooooooooow.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Where do you think writers, for example, get inspiration from?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I get inspiration from the STRANGEST things. A make up room, random phrases, fruit... Not all of the results are entirely sane.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an alcoholic. Ernest Hemingway killed himself. Jane Austen wrote of romance but was alone her whole life. Van Gogh cut off his ear for a girl. Yep, it's true.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's the crazies that find a creative outlet that are the lucky ones. Imagine having all that effed up stuff in your head and *not* being able to express it?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This explains why everyone thinks I am "creative". It probably means that I should be locked up in a padded room some place...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

JK Rowling had severe clinical depression when she started writing the Harry Potter series. I think that relates to this post.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Syd Barret, original frontman for Pink Floyd, is considered the biggest acid casualty. He was brilliant, but went absolutely insane. He would play a completely different song during rehearsals, and wrote one of his last songs with Pink FLoyd about what he was wearing that day. The rest of the band didn't see him for over 10 years. And when they finally found him, he had shaven off all of his body hair and gained like 30 pounds. Then died maybe a few years later. Most of their later work is dedicated to him.

by Anonymous 13 years ago