"The depression that comes after the writing high. The emptiness."
Never really thought about from the depressive standpoint, but more from the cathartic, I guess. Having thrown all of this crap, all of these ideas, out onto the page, and having finished a script/story/(good) written conversation/whatever, I feel drained. The reservoir is empty. Ready to be filled (and emptied) again.
Then comes the inevitable "what's next?" And I guess the only real depressive thought is the fear that there's never going to be a "next." That I'll stare out into the abyss of the imagination and see no new ideas. Just nothing.
That's a little rambly, but something I was thinking about the other day after finishing the second or third draft of something. That fear of the abyss.
Brad_King
· 4 months ago
I think it's different for everybody. Or at least every writer that I know. When I write, finished or not, I'm always immediately engulfed by a tremendous emptiness. I'd say it's awful, but that presumes there is any feeling at all.
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Never really thought about from the depressive standpoint, but more from the cathartic, I guess. Having thrown all of this crap, all of these ideas, out onto the page, and having finished a script/story/(good) written conversation/whatever, I feel drained. The reservoir is empty. Ready to be filled (and emptied) again.
Then comes the inevitable "what's next?" And I guess the only real depressive thought is the fear that there's never going to be a "next." That I'll stare out into the abyss of the imagination and see no new ideas. Just nothing.
That's a little rambly, but something I was thinking about the other day after finishing the second or third draft of something. That fear of the abyss.
It's the void that comes after for me.