Are you a Catastrophist?
I confess: I am a terminal, untreatable catastrophist. The slightest setback, the oddest little twinge in my heart, a bump where there should be one, and my fears expand and billow up like a zeppelin (in this case, the Hindenberg).
It might be brain chemistry or the fact that my childhood was, er, less than a happy one. I'll let the behaviorists hash that out with Steven Pinker. Whatever the root cause(s), my fears and neuroses make my life a living hell...but they might also be the greatest source of inspiration for my writing, the dark well I draw my ideas and insights from.
Look, I don't want to go into it in any depth here, but if you pop over to my Beautiful Desolation blog (http://cliffjburns.wordpress.com) you'll find a new essay where I talk about this in more detail.
I know some of you, at least, will be able to relate to what it says...
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