[Download ebook] The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain






 | #297001 in Books |  Mariner Books |  2005-01-18 |  2005-01-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.25 x.73 x5.50l,.70 | File Name: 0618485414 | 307 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Terrific explanation of the disorder, but also a wonderful guide that explains the root of creativity|By Barry Freed|I developed, later in life and seemingly overnight, hypergraphia and the onset of the compulsion was one of the most frightening feelings of my life. In an attempt to find out why I was going crazy, and why I was churning out 200+ pages per day writing of nothin|From Publishers Weekly|Flaherty (The Massachusetts General Handbook of Neurology) mixes memoir, meditation, compendium and scholarly reportage in an odd but absorbing look at the neurological basis of writing and its pathologies. Like Oliver Sacks, Flaherty has

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,...


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