The Daily Novel

When in manic flow they can do lots of things better than usually but they cannot put the kettle on.

This is a side-effect of the huge energy and flood of ideas. I move from my desk my desk to the kitchen when I feel thirsty. But by the time I get to the kitchen another idea has struck me, so I literally forget what I was going to do. Or sometimes there is no sugar left in the sugar pot and I have to look in several cupboards before I find the reserve supply.

The ordinary and the mundane seems difficult.

Another example. When I am writing on the crest of a manic wave, which quite often involves expressing some fairly complex ideas, I am suddenly stuck for the spelling of a quite ordinary word which I have typed thousands of times in my life. Like ‘psychiartrist’

These days I don’t even have to stop to pull down the dictionary. I just highlight the word and go into the spell check.