Midnight Disease The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

Name: Midnight Disease The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
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ISBN: 9780618485413

ISBN-10: 0618485414

ISBN-13: 9780618485413

Edition: 2005

Authors: Alice Weaver Flaherty

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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 Kafka to Anne Lamott, from Sylvia Plath to Stephen King. Flaherty, who herself has grappled with episodes of compulsive writing and block, also offers a compelling personal account of her own experiences with these conditions.

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/18/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



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


References


Illustration Credits


Index