I just returned home from visiting with my psychiatrist. Since I take Adderall, I have to meet with him every other month. Usually, the visit goes like this…
“How’s everything going?” he’ll ask.
“I think OK.”
“Still writing?”
“Yep.”
“Well, I guess I’ll fill your prescription and see you back here in 8 weeks.”
“Awesome. It’s a beautiful day outside, huh?”
“It really is. Have a good one. And tell your wife hello for me.”
Then I go home. Seriously, I pay a lot of money for that conversation.
But this morning my doctor asked me more about my book.
“You’ve been working on a book, right?” he said to me.
“Yeah, I have been. It’s finished now.”
“That’s good news. When does it come out?”
“October.”
“Ooh nice.”
“Yeah, I’m excited.”
“It’s crazy, Matthew, but I have at least twelve patients who are writers with actual books out in stores.”
“Really?”
“Yeah, one of them brought me her latest work of fiction yesterday.”
“That’s cool.”
“Yeah, that’s a lot of writers,” he said.
“But really, Doctor, does it surprise you? Most writers are pretty effed up in the head. I think it’s a prerequisite to becoming a writer.”
He laughed and said, “Yeah, you’re pretty much right.”
And then I gave him my usual report on the weather and said goodbye. It was a really nice visit actually. I might have gotten my money’s worth.
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This sounds about right.
It’s beautiful outside today.
Cameron
Stephen King would agree.
No really, he says so in “On Writing”…
p.s. let me know when you’re up for a dose of “Please please please give me your version of everything you know about being a writer and making a living doing so” by Kristine Neeley.
K, thanks. 🙂
truman capote on the artist/writer:
“i think that all artists are two-headed calves. being an artist separates you from things in general. one’s mind is working at a faster, more sensitive, more rapid, eye-batting level than most people’s…i think thats honestly the reason why so many writers drink or take pills or whatever: to calm themselves down; to quiet this continuous, rapid-running machine.”
if i had a penny for every pill i took or drink i had over the last several years…i could make a living writing. 🙂