Franz Kafka Agonized over Writer’s Block (2017)

Re:Franz Kafka Agonized over Writer’s Block (2017) by gnode on Thursday June 27, 2019 @07:42AM (#20293524)

> Nobody ever told me when I was young and bouncing off the walls with exuberance and creativity that someday that wellspring might run out. That I'd wake up one day tired, so impossibly tired that when I sit down at the computer I'm asleep within 15 minutes.

A metaphor I like for creativity is a forest. The wood of a forest is a renewable resource, and cutting down trees can actually make the forest healthier and grow more efficiently. The problem comes when the forest is managed unsustainably; trying to meet some external short-term demand.

I think that with mental health in general, many of us suffer the fallacy of thinking that because we're healthy now, we can take any amount of stress and abuse.

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Re:Franz Kafka Agonized over Writer’s Block (2017) by zackmorris on Thursday June 27, 2019 @01:14PM (#20296424)

Thank you, that's a good metaphor, I'll remember that. I feel like I got just to the point where the trees along the bank of a river had been cut down, so the soil had begun eroding and the water table was dropping. Luckily (in a way) I'm off that project and beavers have moved in and started building dams, and it may take a while but the ecosystem in my brain seems to be recovering, albeit slowly :-)

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