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When creative compulsion feels absent

I keep reading interviews with writers who say they have to write and I worry that since I sometimes do not want to I am not a real writer

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The romanticized notion of artistic necessity can create doubt in writers who experience their creative drive as intermittent rather than constant.

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