In response to the irritateing thread that's been going on like a
certain demented rabbit with a drum, I just have to share a quote that
seems appropriate in an odd sort of way.

    consider it a word of warning if nothing else.


    "But writeing is antisocial...Dustrub a writer when he is in the
throes of creation and he is likely to tur and bite right to the
bone...and not even know that he's doing it.  As writers' wives and
husbands often learn to their horror.
    And-attend to me carefully!-there is NO way that writters can be
tamed and rendered civilized.  Or even cured.
<snip>
    ...But I did not explain to you the other insidious aspect of
writing.  There is no way to stop.  Writers go on writing long after
it becomes financially unnecessary...because it hurts less to write
than it does not to write."
    "I don't understand."
    "I didn't either, when I took that first fatal step-a short story,
it was, and I honestly thought I could quit anytime.  Never mind,
dear.  In another ten years you will  understand.  Just pay no
attention to me when I wimper. Doesn't mean anything-just the monkey
on my back."
    "Richard? Would psychoanalysis help?"
    "Can't risk it.  I once knew a writer who tried that route.  Cured
him of writing all right.  But did not cure him of the need to write.
The last I saw of him he was crouching in a corner, trembling.  That
was his good phase.  But the mere sight of a wordprocessor woulg throw
him into a fit..."

-The cat who walks through walls, Robert A. Heinlein


Just throught It seemed relevent.


till later,
_tc_


-who has also cought writerosis himself.