Mentally Disturbed Writers

Just a short entry today since I have an important anniversary this evening. One of the posters over at MyLot (that’s a paid-to-participate forum place) mentioned a rather interesting little talk by Elizabeth Gilbert. She wrote a very successful book called “Eat, Pray, Love” and here discusses some of the implications of trying to continue writing when, quite possibly, she’s been as successful as she ever will.

It’s an interesting talk and also quite amusing to hear how one person manages with the popularly-perceived concept that all great writers go mad in the end. It runs for just under twenty minutes (or about an hour and a half if your connection sucks as badly as mine).

You can watch it here.

[Originally published on www.wordophilia.com]