The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

Flaherty, Alice Weaver

ISBN 10: 0618485414 / ISBN 13: 9780618485413

Published by Mariner Books, 2005

About this Item

This copy has clearly been enjoyedâ expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618485414
• ISBN 13: 9780618485413
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

About this title

Synopsis

Why is it that some writers struggle for months to come up with the perfect sentence or phrase while others, hunched over a keyboard deep into the night, seem unable to stop writing? In The Midnight Disease, neurologist Alice W. Flaherty explores the mysteries of literary creativity: the drive to write, what sparks it, and what extinguishes it. She draws on intriguing examples from medical case studies and from the lives of writers, from Franz Kafka to Anne Lamott, from Sylvia Plath to Stephen King. Flaherty, who herself has grappled with episodes of compulsive writing and block, also offers a compelling personal account of her own experiences with these conditions.

About the Author

A. W. Flaherty is a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who also teaches at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain. A. W. lives with her husband and twin daughters near Boston.