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From NPR.ORG:
Many authors fear writer's block. But its opposite -- hypergraphia, the driving compulsion to write -- can be equally debilitating. A new book called The Midnight Disease considers the relationship between the wiring of the brain, writing and creativity. NPR's Renee Montagne talks with author and neurologist Alice Flaherty.
To listen to the segment, go to this link:
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1623749
and click on Morning Edition audio
Enjoy!
Dawn
Could be. Isn't it also a poem?...Yes! Here it is:
Cacoëthes Scribendi
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
IF all the trees in all the woods were men;
And each and every blade of grass a pen;
If every leaf on every shrub and tree
Turned to a sheet of foolscap; every sea
Were changed to ink, and all earth’s living tribes
Had nothing else to do but act as scribes,
And for ten thousand ages, day and night,
The human race should write, and write, and write,
Till all the pens and paper were used up,
And the huge inkstand was an empty cup,
Still would the scribblers clustered round its brink
Call for more pens, more paper, and more ink.
Usually just called logorrhea or potty mouth.
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