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Author

Flaherty, Alice.

Title The midnight disease : the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain / Alice W. Flaherty.

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Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2004.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	808.0019 F597m 2004	---	Available

Description	307 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-283) and index.
Contents	Hypergraphia : the incurable disease of writing -- Literary creativity and drive -- Writer's block as state of mind -- Writer's block as brain state -- How we write : the cortex -- Why we write : the limbic system -- Metaphor, the inner voice, and the muse.
Subject	Writer's block.
	Authorship -- Psychological aspects.
	Authors -- Mental health.
	Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
ISBN	0618230653