Creative writing

I think I'm starting to understand just why writers always seem so strange... it infiltrates the psyche.

I've recently started a creative writing project, and while I'm still quite the amateur it has become an obsession. Like, keeping me awake and overrunning my dreams when I finally CAN sleep, sort of of obsession.

I'm in my left brain all day. Programming, math, analysis, problem solving, etc, etc, etc... switching to my right brain to 'feel' and empathize and verbalize those feelings in an attempt to create empathy in others is a vastly different experience.

Maybe the feelings of anxiety will fade over time. But I kind of hope they don't. It's a strange type of co-dependence I feel; knowing that I (and my characters) are at the mercy of my imagination.

Yeah... that doesn't make me sound like lunatic or anything. O.o