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Writing

Midnight Writer

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5. I also gain clarity when writing.

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 06:06 PM

Oct 2025

Writing forces you to organize your thoughts and come up with clearer ways to express your ideas.

I keep a journal of my daily activity, and when you take the time to put these little unimportant things together and write them down, you gain new perspectives on what it all means.

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Anyone ever get a writer's high, like a runner's high? [View all] bigtree Oct 2025 OP

I have had that experience UpInArms Oct 2025 #1

I have. FalloutShelter Oct 2025 #2

They say to try it with a 72 hour or longer fast bucolic_frolic Oct 2025 #3

do i become manic when i write? rampartd Oct 2025 #4

I also gain clarity when writing. Midnight Writer Oct 2025 #5

It's entering the zone peggysue2 Oct 2025 #6

I woke up one morning around mid April, 1994 JMCKUSICK Oct 2025 #7

if you wrote it on a computer Trueblue Texan Oct 2025 #11

Yes. FemDemERA Oct 2025 #8

Yeah. Then they figured out who was writing the bouncing checks. 3Hotdogs Oct 2025 #9

I have been in the flow as you describe... Trueblue Texan Oct 2025 #10

In small doses PATRICK Oct 2025 #12

I wish I could access it so freely and easily... Trueblue Texan Oct 2025 #13

Appreciate everything, even a good horror GOP presidency, like a glass of fine old prussic acid PATRICK Oct 2025 #14

That is an interesting idea jfz9580m Nov 2025 #15