From: Cat@yabbs
To: Deaska@yabbs
Subject: re: query
Date: Fri Apr 15 09:07:36 1994

Hmmmm. That's a tough question....some of the best writers, most of the 
best writers, and esp. my favorites, were moody, depressed and 
psychologically messed up people-like Poe and Eliot...many writers 
produced some of their best stuff when "under the influence" like Poe and 
Coleridge and Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland may have been shroom 
induced, but I still love it. :) ) Me myself, I write stuff when I'm 
depressed to bring myself out of it. At the same time, when I'm really 
happy about something, I write then too. I write when I find myself at 
ANY emotional peak. I find that expressing what 
I'm feeling about ANYthing creatively and getting it down on paper, or 
through music really helps. So maybe that's what everyone else is doing 
whn they write...and maybe that's why the best stuff people sometimes 
produce is when their feeling some sort of strong emotion (be it 
depression, anger,love (gack) :) etc.)-when people 
are feeling something, then they're more alive, their senses are more 
awake, and of course they're going to write better stuff. 

 Anyway...these ramblings are my opinion on the matter. Interesting query 
Deask. *smile* I liked it. :)

  -tammie