“Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman’s name out of a satire, then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized, anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to be a writer -and if so, why?”
Bennett Cerf
I dunno … but it sounds kinda fun! Besides I work at a desk job that is boring. This way, at least I rub shoulders with and belong to a community that is imaginative, creative and …. well touched in the head.
I love it
LOL
There should be a list of the stuff bloggers do too 
OMG! Think of the law suites IHM, Scary!
Fascinating
And you’re doing a great job… as a writer 
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Makes the others sort of think…as in “think” you know, when you supply ideas like this
@IHM, what a superb idea
Hahahaha! I live to create effect, quite the exhibitionist, in fact! A fan of my blog and book called me “The thinking man’s SILK” even before I wrote this blog … hmm makes me wonder just what did I do?
Where did my comment go?
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Still missing?
Ok. Saw it
“…and well touched in the head.” Yes, that’s it!
hmpf.. That’s what I wanted to say too
@Shail, @Hrishi …
Because despite the drug addictions and sex quirks, they produced works that are still read with pleasure today. Because despite the depression they battled, they produced romances that fill a young heart with hope for the future. And because despite whatever people say that the written word carries less value each second because of the new media, the written word still has the power to make a person smile, laugh, cry and love in the space of a paragraph.
(I’ve been MIA but Ritu, MA is gonna kill me!)
Ahhh Addy welcome back! Yeah, living a cushy secure life does not give one the incentive to tap the angst and walk the edge … and hence no memorable works
You speak my mind
And besides writers are still the greatest and imagination and creativity is what give fun to a boring life
Exactly! I always wanted to colour trees purple and the ground blue … why not????
A little loopiness makes life worth living, non?
Of course!