Obsession: Guest Post at Trestle

I'm up on my publisher's blog today with a piece on obsession. Yeah, you wouldn't imagine it, eh? Me? Obsessed? Nah. Here's the first part of it. Read the rest over at Trestle and feel free to share.




K.A. Laity- "Obsession"- Guest Post, author of "Drunk on The Moon-It's A Curse"







Obsession



I seem to have two speeds: obsessed and don't care. The greater part of
the world falls into "don't care": politics, fashion, television, sports
-- I just don't care. For that matter, add cooking and cleaning and
talking to people who don't amuse me. Obsessions: writing, Peter Cook,
The Fall, writing, myth, magic, folklore, writing, travel, theatre,
film, writing and classic British comedy. And writing. I completely
understand P. G. Wodehouse's comment, "I never want to see anyone, and I
never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write."


My ex once accused me of having hypergraphia. It's a clinical disease where people obsessively write anywhere,
anytime, on anything they've got in front of them. Most people who
suffer from the little-studied disease write nonsense: it's the action
of writing that comforts their manic sprees, not content. I have a head
bursting with stories that want to be written and I spend a lot of time
in front of my black Mac going tappity-tappity. I also go out to the pub
with friends and go see plays and walk along Galway Bay and think
nothing at all but what a wonderful world this is. But writing is what I
do. Writing is how I see the world. When something terrible happens to
me, I struggle through it by finding the right words to describe it in
my head.
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Read the rest over at Trestle Press and if you haven't checked out It's a Curse , well criminy! It's only 99¢ -- it's not going to break the bank! Hee hee, and this is the beginning of my birthday week, so don't forget about my birthday wish. I appreciate your help.