It is far easier for me to communicate in writing too. This was the case at former job before advanced psychosis. Would email clients way more than talk on phone. Brain just doesn’t function as well when I am talking unless it is someone non stressful or non threatening so I understand.
Working really keeps me from inward focus too.
If I can’t work, I will get out and volunteer at a place that helps people with food and clothes.
Would go crazier if at home with no purpose all the time.
@kasia, I’m not so sure it’s just inner critic, I can argue with that and usually get that to shut up…it’s the ones telling me the negative things that I can’t get to shut up that distract me the most.
My inner critic is pretty tough on me. Hmm… really negative voice. That’s really hard to get any writing done with that. Yes I can see how that is distracting. What does it complain the most about? You being good enough to be a published author or all of your writing in general?
Yes, they say I suck at writing, or I’m not original enough, or I’m too stupid because I don’t much experience at any one thing to write well about. Or everything I write sounds like the last thing I write, or that if I get published no one would bother to read it, or if they would they’d find something wrong with it…
Wow really super harsh on you.
Maybe you should tell them that if they want to be so critical then to go write their own piece if they think they know so much more than you. Or imagine taping their mouths shut:)
They are wrong. Everyone has an interesting story to tell and has experience in something. As for sounding the same, tell them it’s your voice. Everyone has their own writing voice and you can pick a writer out by the way their voice sounds in their writing. The publishing part, tell them every writer touches someone, even if it’s just one person. That one person is someone. Finding something wrong… well, absolutely no one on earth is perfect. Tell them to shut it and go write their own thing.
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I try, unfortunately with the voices I can’t control it doesn’t quite work. That’s why I know it’s not my personal criticisms. I can tell that to be quiet, or prove it wrong by showing examples, or satisfy uncertainty with doing lots of research, and the inner criticisms knows about a writers “voice” so it doesn’t say anything about that. Or the voice will give me something to work with like changing this line here or there. The other voices, the ones I can’t control are just harsh…as you put it. And if I try to argue with them like my inner-voice they get even worse.